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

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

The colonial home of Paul Revere during the American Revolution.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

The former home of a Boston physician whose murder led to a revolution in forensic science.

Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

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

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

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

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