Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

One of the world’s largest living advertisements is made out of pine trees.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

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

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

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

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.