This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

A fascinating little museum all about the rich history of Peru’s famous plant.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."