A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

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

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.