The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

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

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

This is the house that spite built.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

"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."

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

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

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

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

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

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

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

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

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

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

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

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.