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

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

This museum honors the composer of “Swannee Ribber.”

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

A man's home is his castle.

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

America's first public mental health facility.