A Texas-sized secondhand bookstore features 54,000 square feet of books, music, and media.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

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

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

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

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.