This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

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

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Bizarre Cavern.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Yo, Adrian!

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.