Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

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

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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.

Named for the biblical warrior, the largest castle in Israel actually dates to the Middle Ages.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

This ancient cave temple complex is the largest and best-preserved temple complex in Sri Lanka.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

Visitors to this Kentucky homestead turned museum are immediately transported back to the Antebellum south.

This 15-foot tall obelisk commemorating the Philadelphia-Baltimore railroad connection sat neglected for over a century.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.