Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Palestinian-style savory breads and fine patisserie are served with a generous side of hospitality.

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

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.

This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

Built in 1821 using rooms from another estate, the Phillips House is the only historic home on scenic Chestnut Street open to the public.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

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

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

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

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

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

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.