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

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

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

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.

Known as "The Dome" this is the world's largest open air geodesic dome.

When a guy acquired a free church, he hauled it away piece-by-piece to make it the tasting hall at his vineyard.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.