A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

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

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

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

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

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

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."