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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The Cold War-era "underground Pentagon" is a sprawling subterranean hideaway for the Defense Department.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.