A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

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

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

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

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

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.