The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

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

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

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

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.