Subiaco, Italy
Sacro Speco di San Benedetto
This monastery set over a holy cave contains the oldest known painting of Saint Francis of Assisi.
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Subiaco, Italy
This monastery set over a holy cave contains the oldest known painting of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.
Boston, Massachusetts
This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.
Boston, Massachusetts
"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."
Boston, Massachusetts
The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.
Boston, Massachusetts
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.
Boston, Massachusetts
These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.
Boston, Massachusetts
19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!
Boston, Massachusetts
The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.
Boston, Massachusetts
Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.
Boston, Massachusetts
A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.
Boston, Massachusetts
This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Boston, Massachusetts
The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.
Boston, Massachusetts
Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.
Boston, Massachusetts
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
Uribante, Venezuela
A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.
Boston, Massachusetts
A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.
Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Described by William Wordsworth as a "World of Wonder."
Onsted, Michigan
The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.
Guildford, England
This sculpture combines the literary Alice with her real-life inspiration.
New York, New York
The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.
Tokyo, Japan
Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.