This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

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

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

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

Narrowest house in Boston.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A small museum along the Susquehanna River is home to a rich collection of Native American artifacts.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.