The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

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

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

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

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

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.