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Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

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

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

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

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

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.