Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

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

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

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

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

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.