This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Discovered on a shipwreck after more than 400 years, this Renaissance ratter tells a very waggly tale.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

This colossal war machine is now a living museum dedicated to underwater warfare.

The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.

This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.

This modest relic, with rich history as a strategic fort through multiple eras.

The world's largest collection of historic U.S. military naval vessels.

Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

A massive rotating globe sits at the center of Babson Park.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

The longest step street in the city.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.