One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

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

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

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

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

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

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

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

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

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

The magic's in the hole!

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.