Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

A science teacher's dream.

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

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

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

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

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

The 606 is a decade in the making.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.