This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.

Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

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

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This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.