The giant birds honor two native North American species.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

In the basement of the U.S. Capitol Building is a hidden storage room full of ornate floor tiles leftover from the 1850s.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This store also houses a museum dedicated to the history of these small, historic community shops.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

This cabin survived a landslide that killed its owners.

Who is this marble man, perpetually creeping up the steps of his own mausoleum?