Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

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

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

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

The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.

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

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.