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

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

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

A seemingly desolate park that belongs to two countries actually supports all kinds of wildlife.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.