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

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

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

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.