Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

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

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

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

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

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

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.