The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

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

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

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

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

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

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

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."