The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

This faux Greek Revival mansion is a clever optical illusion tucked into a Beacon Hill alley.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

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

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

A display of hand-built replicas of the legendary vessels used by Patagonian and Antarctic explorers.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

Designed to honor all those that work as nurses around the globe.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.