The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

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

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

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

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.