This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

This steep slide at a kids’ playground went viral after an police officer tumbled down it.

This electronics repair store celebrates the history of computers.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

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