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

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

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

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

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.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

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

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

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

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

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

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.