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

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

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

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

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

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

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”