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The loneliest island in New York.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

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

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The smallest useable chapel in Michigan is five-by-eight feet and has seating for three.

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

Once the tallest building in Detroit, this Gothic church houses some of the oldest stained-glass windows in the country.

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.