An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Yo, Adrian!

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.