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

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

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

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

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.