Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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

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

During segregation, this Orlando hotel hosted performers like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Now it's a museum dedicated to preserving local Black history.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

Hidden on two floors of downtown building, the library has an incredible deal on rent.

A shop for all your magical needs and notions.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.