A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Narrowest house in Boston.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.