The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Along the edge of this fountain are 365 smaller fountains that represent the days of the year.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

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

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.