The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

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

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.

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

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

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

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

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

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.