Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

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

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!

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

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

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

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

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

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

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The middle finger of modernity.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

This Czech military museum is home to pink tank that was once a symbol of art and political rebellion.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.