Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

A beautiful and controversial modern sculpture that alludes to the Aztec past identity of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the phenomenon of syncretism.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

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

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

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

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

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

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

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.