Boston, Massachusetts
Deer Island Great Hunger Memorial
A memorial dedicated to victims of the Irish Potato Famine who perished while quarantined on this island.
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Boston, Massachusetts
A memorial dedicated to victims of the Irish Potato Famine who perished while quarantined on this island.
Boston, Massachusetts
The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.
Boston, Massachusetts
A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.
Boston, Massachusetts
The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.
Boston, Massachusetts
The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.
Boston, Massachusetts
No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...
Boston, Massachusetts
This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.
Boston, Massachusetts
America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.
Boston, Massachusetts
The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.
Boston, Massachusetts
19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!
Boston, Massachusetts
The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.
Boston, Massachusetts
Museum dedicated to awful artwork.
Warsaw, Poland
Order “Proletariat’s Cutlet” at this communist-themed restaurant allegedly once visited by Lenin.
Warsaw, Poland
This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.
Warsaw, Poland
At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Warsaw, Poland
The final resting place of the last "gypsy king" of Poland.
Warsaw, Poland
This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.
Warsaw, Poland
A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.
Warsaw, Poland
A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.
Warsaw, Poland
A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.
Warsaw, Poland
A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.
Oslo, Norway
In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.
Oslo, Norway
The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.