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

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

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

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

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

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.