One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

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

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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