Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

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

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.