A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.

This stained glass window designed by Tiffany Studios is hidden behind the circulation desk of a public library.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.