This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

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

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.