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What if the Fountain of Youth was actually found in Delaware? One historic coastal town believes it to be true.

Sip colonial-era cocktails at this monthly recreation of a 1740 watering hole.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

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

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

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

A 17th-century Japanese bell brought back by U.S. sailors after WWII and later gifted as a symbol of peace.

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

Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Since 1956, this quintessentially New England seafood shack has been boiling its lobsters in seawater over wood fires.

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.