Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

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

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

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

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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