Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

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

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.