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

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

America’s oldest community theater, this Boston club has been in operation since 1877.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

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.

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

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

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

This mill played a key role in the region’s development and it is just one of ten along the east coast of the United States.

Sip a cappuccino in the historic cafe that introduced them to the United States.

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

Discover the taste of mold.