A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

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

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

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

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.