The bench featured in the film with Robin Williams and Matt Damon has become a popular destination for moviegoers.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A memorial dedicated to victims of the Irish Potato Famine who perished while quarantined on this island.

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

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Mural fragments and various sculptures honor the longtime artist.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

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

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."