A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

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

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

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

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

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.