In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

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

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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

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

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A colorful hidden village of the fair folk.