This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

This historic church with a connection to "Uncle Sam" is now a fraternity house.

Memorial dedicated to four citizens killed during a shooting spree prompted by a routine traffic stop.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

The final resting place of the first American-born professional magician.

Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings.

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

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

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

Narrowest house in Boston.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.