Boston, Massachusetts
Copp's Hill Burying Ground
This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.
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Boston, Massachusetts
This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.
Boston, Massachusetts
Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.
Boston, Massachusetts
Narrowest house in Boston.
Boston, Massachusetts
The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.
Ashkelon, Israel
These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.
Brooklyn, New York
A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.
La Paz, Bolivia
Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.
New York, New York
Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.
Berlin, Germany
The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.
Columbia, Pennsylvania
North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.
Peru
Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.
Jerusalem, Israel
This historic rec center in the heart of Israel is a bastion of peace and togetherness.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Washington, D.C.
The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.
New Haven, Connecticut
One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Brooklyn, New York
Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.