The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

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

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

Narrowest house in Boston.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This secret Australian garden was built on love after a man planted a random bulb he found in the ocean.

The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Roadside attraction outside of a recycling center.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

People can't get enough of these adorable Japanese photobooths.