A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Half-scale model of a historic ship in the children's section of Provincetown Public Library.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts displays what it calls the world's largest ship model.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

Yup, that's where the name came from.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

True to its name, this little house presents like a dollhouse, and surprising details are revealed with a quick peek through the window.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Salina's eye-catching giant mural depicting children at play is painted atop a century-old mill elevator.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The iconic Chicago sculpture hides a beautiful and easily overlooked plaque on the backside.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

The golden age of flight captured in a downtown airport.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.