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Roosevelt Island Cat Sanctuary

New York, New York

Roosevelt Island Cat Sanctuary

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

The garden inside the Ford Foundation Building

New York, New York

New York's Hidden Tropical Forest

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Mt. Auburn Cemetery

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mount Auburn Cemetery

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Leif the Lucky bridge at Midlina.

Iceland

Bridge Between Continents

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat.

Reykjavik, Iceland

Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

The cemetery.

Reykjavik, Iceland

Hólavallagarður Cemetery

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

Harpa at night

Reykjavik, Iceland

Harpa

This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.

Hallgrimskirkja

Reykjavik, Iceland

Hallgrimskirkja

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Typical Boston gravestones showing the winged death head

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston's Old Burying Grounds

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

The dragon bones seen hanging behind the altar.

Venice, Italy

'Dragon Bones' of Santa Maria e San Donato

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Portraits of the saints.

Rome, Italy

Basilica of San Crisogono

Remnants of a 4th-century church with vivid medieval frescoes and ancient sarcophagi hide beneath this old basilica.

Gold markers pay tribute to participants of Boston Tea Party

Boston, Massachusetts

Copp's Hill Burying Ground

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Georges Island

Hull, Massachusetts

Georges Island

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

More Boston landmarks, and a dinosaur farm
Permanently Closed

Somerville, Massachusetts

Elfland

A tiny town in an empty lot was the work of a local eight-year-old.

Juliet's balcony

Verona, Italy

Juliet's Balcony

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Somerville Round House

Somerville, Massachusetts

Somerville Round House

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

Reliable Market

Somerville, Massachusetts

Reliable Market

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

View from across Piazza San Marco.

Venice, Italy

St. Mark's Clock Tower (Torre dell'Orologio)

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Cats lounging on ancient architecture

Rome, Italy

Torre Argentina (Roman Cat Sanctuary)

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Old Burial Ground

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Old Burial Ground

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Blaschka Glass Flowers

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Blaschka Glass Flowers

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The world's only Kronosaurus skeleton.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Prospect Hill Tower

Somerville, Massachusetts

Prospect Hill Tower

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

The monument with the inscription is the only trace of the convent.

Somerville, Massachusetts

Site of the Destroyed Ursuline Convent

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

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