Built in 1821 using rooms from another estate, the Phillips House is the only historic home on scenic Chestnut Street open to the public.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

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

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

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

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history, this memorial has faced its fair share of backlash.

The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."