One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

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

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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

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

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