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.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

True to its name, this little house presents like a dollhouse, and surprising details are revealed with a quick peek through the window.

Bizarre Cavern.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

This recipe is set in stone.