This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

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.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

"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."

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.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

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

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

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

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

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