The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

What was once a summer home next to a waterfall has now become littered with graffiti and children in swimsuits.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.

This monastery set over a holy cave contains the oldest known painting of Saint Francis of Assisi.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

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

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

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

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

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

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

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

Described by William Wordsworth as a "World of Wonder."

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.