The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

America’s oldest community theater, this Boston club has been in operation since 1877.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This smiling statue memorializes local cartoonist Bob Montana and his legendary creation.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.