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

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

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

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

The magic's in the hole!

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.