The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

This hidden labyrinth offers walkers some brief peace of mind.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

This Argentinian hedge maze is an intricate tribute to a famous surrealist author.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

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

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.