The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

Showing films since the silent era of the 1920s, it is now the last movie house in downtown Newport.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

Designed to not only to represent the history of the local community but also, the future.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

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

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

One of the oldest carousels in the United States is still running in the coastal village of Watch Hill.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

A giant sculpture head with an optical illusion dedicated to the longtime conductor of the Boston Pops.

This mosaic commemorates the oldest subway tunnel and station in the United States.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.