These small stands sell Malian snacks to worshippers and passersby after Friday prayers in Harlem.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.