It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

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

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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

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

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

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.