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

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

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

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

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

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

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

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

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.