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

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

Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

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

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

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

This mosaic commemorates the oldest subway tunnel and station in the United States.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

This plaque honors the unsung Black songstress once known as the “greatest singer of her race.”

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

The only quarter of the Old City not dedicated to a major world religion.

The Lincoln Memorial has inspired many, even though a word on the inscription appears to be spelled incorrectly.

Situated in a bustling intersection, this "mobile" monument that honors local veterans from five different wars has moved several times but appears to have found its final resting place.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

Concrete pillars provide a beautiful canvas for Quebec City's graffiti artists.

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.