Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.