For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

"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."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.