This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

The tennis legend used this racket while breaking the race barrier and becoming the first Black man to win the US Open.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

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

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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

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

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

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

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

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.