These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

Designed to honor all those that work as nurses around the globe.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

The site of the largest mass execution in Rhode Island history, haunted by the ghosts of hanged pirates.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.