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Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

This is the house that spite built.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

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

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

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

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

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

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Outsider Art Community.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.