Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

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

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

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.