Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

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

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

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

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

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

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

As state high-points-by-elevation go this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

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

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

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

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

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.