Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

Order the extra snappy, steamed hot dogs at this fourth-generation-run New England diner.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

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

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

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

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

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

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.

This rare archive of original recordings and photos uncovers the early days of hip hop culture.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

Here be dragons.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

It's common to find the famous science communicator's grave adorned with pale blue marbles.

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

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.