A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

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

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Hidden on the seventh floor of a historic building, this Cajun spot features wall-to-wall bottles of hot sauce.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

A science teacher's dream.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

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

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."