The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

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.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

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

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

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

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

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

A normal, unassuming pedestrian overpass has been the demise of many, many trucks.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.