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

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

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

This mountain fissure hides a secret path to a secluded mossy grotto within the rock itself.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

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

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.