One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

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

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

This softly rounded mansion was built without corners not to avoid evil spirits, but to make them more comfortable.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.