Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

This small oasis of flora and art was created in remembrance of a local auto business owner.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

The disdain for this dysfunctional dam is reflected in a giant pair of scissors painted on the concrete face.

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

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.