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

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

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

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.