A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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!

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

An intact, still operating pharmacy from the 18th-century filled with numerous artifacts and paintings.

Everyday, fans from across the globe visit the statue of one of the greatest Formula One drivers in history.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.