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

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

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

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

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

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Narrowest house in Boston.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.