No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

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

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.

America's first public lending library began with a gift from Benjamin Franklin.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

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

This historic, one-acre island is the only legal place to camp in the city of Richmond.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.