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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

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

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

A mouldering Colombian bull ring stands as a reminder of the country's complicated relationship with a brutal sport.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

This elegant Colombian fortress was one of the torture headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.