Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Commemorating the 1948 creation of the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based cancer charity.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

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