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

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.

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

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

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

Located in Faneuil Hall, the headquarters of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts has stood the test of time.

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

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.