The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

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

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.