The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

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

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

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

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

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

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

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

This strangely specific landmark will let travelers know when they are half way there.

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

From carts to cars, this leftover Roman bridge in France has managed to survive for centuries.