A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

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.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

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 island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.