Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

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

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

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

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

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

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

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

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

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.