Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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

This is the house that spite built.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

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

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

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

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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