A school used as a model for public education across the country.

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

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

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

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

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

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

This sprawling, formerly elite sporting complex in Amman, Jordan has become a local picnic spot.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

A quaint village in Western New York named after Alexander Hamilton's beloved sister-in-law.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.