This Latvian shot factory is still used twice a year to manufacture bullets the old-fashioned way.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

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

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

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