Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The only remaining place where you can play this century-old game for cash.

In 1898, a New England storm that claimed more than 400 lives created this brand new stretch of shoreline.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.