Boston, Massachusetts
King's Chapel Crypt
A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.
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Boston, Massachusetts
A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.
Boston, Massachusetts
The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.
Boston, Massachusetts
This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.
Boston, Massachusetts
A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.
Zurich, Switzerland
Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.
Schlatt, Switzerland
Everything from alchemy books to building plans for the Eiffel Tower are housed inside this museum.
North Salem, New York
Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.
Peterborough, New Hampshire
This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.
Mont Vernon, New Hampshire
A man killed in a hunting accident is eternally guarded by a granite hound tombstone.
Lyndeborough, New Hampshire
Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.
Wilton, New Hampshire
A small obelisk marks the spot where Captain Sam Greele was killed by a falling tree.
Milford, New Hampshire
A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.
Mason, New Hampshire
The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.
Milford, New Hampshire
The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.
Oxford, England
One of Europe's oldest libraries.
Dunfermline, Scotland
Andrew Carnegie funded the building of almost 3,000 libraries across the world, this was the first.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Rome, Italy
Harlequin costumes, signed scripts, and armor-wearing puppets.
Rome, Italy
Believed to be the remains of the lost Temple of Minerva, this nymphaeum has been known by its misnomer to this day.
Rome, Italy
This statue is the only female representation of Rome's "talking statues."
Rome, Italy
Known for centuries as the famous Roman emperor's burial place, this monument is actually something else.
Rome, Italy
This one-of-a-kind Roman arch is not actually dedicated to the god Janus.
Rome, Italy
Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.