Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

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

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

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

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Venice's island of the dead.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

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

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

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

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

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