Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

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.

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

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.