Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

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

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

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.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

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

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

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

A long lost multi-cultural music venue used to reside in the bottom floor of Chicago's Flat Iron Building.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

The faint remains of a Polish news empire still linger.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

Parking lot where a Chicago mayor was inaugurated under very sketchy circumstances.

This historic store hides a museum exhibiting a shoe-sizing x-ray machine and a pair of kicks that once belonged to the world's tallest man.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.