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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

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

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

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

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Preserving the memory of the narrow railroads that once crisscrossed the state of Maine.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

A 60-foot-tall tower provides unparalleled views of the southern Green Mountains.

The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

The first keystone arch railroad bridges constructed in America.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

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

The dress young Pierce wore prior to his breeching ceremony in the early 1800s is now on display for all to see.