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

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.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

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

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

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

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

This disappearing geyser has been attributed to witchcraft, but really it's all about rainfall.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.