Salem, Massachusetts
Proctor's Ledge
A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.
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Salem, Massachusetts
A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!
Philip, South Dakota
A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.
Sundance, Wyoming
An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.
Dunseith, North Dakota
A rim-made reptile in North Dakota.
Rothsay, Minnesota
The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.
Blanchard, North Dakota
This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This plaque is dedicated to one-half of the Magliozzi brothers and their hit radio show, 'Car Talk.'
Bangor, Maine
This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.
Bangor, Maine
The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.
New York, New York
This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.
New York, New York
This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.
New York, New York
Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.
Boston, Massachusetts
A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.
Winthrop, Massachusetts
Second largest wastewater treatment plant in the country.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.
Newton, Massachusetts
This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.
Ware, Massachusetts
The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.