The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

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

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

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

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

Featuring the largest CinemaScope screen in Pennsylvania, this drive-in has entertained moviegoers for more than half a century.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

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

An ode to filmmaker George A. Romero, who used the mall to film an iconic horror movie.

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

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.