Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

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

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

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

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

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

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.