A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

From horses to stainless-steel trucks, this iconic Providence burger wagon is one of the oldest mobile diners in the country.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.