This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

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

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

The largest Chinese cemetery in the world outside of China dates back to the 15th century.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

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

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

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

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

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.