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

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

"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 massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.