Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.

This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

The bizarre story of the mysterious death and hidden treasure of one of Sanibel Island's early homesteaders.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

Here be dragons.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.