In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

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

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.