This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

The oldest playground in America.

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Yo, Adrian!

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This beautiful site is where the first transatlantic telegraph was sent from.

An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.