The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

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

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

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

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

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.

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

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

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

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

The Hveragerði fissure runs through this unassuming shopping center.

North Africa's first museum of its kind preserves the culture of Moroccan women and their artistic achievements. 

A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

Journey through various trails to discover a land before time along the Chazy Fossil Reef.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.