What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

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

A memorial to Chinese freedom in the city where American freedom was born.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

Set sail on a small scale.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.