A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

A dedication plaque on this Boston tunnel is a microcosm of a massive, controversy-laden construction project.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A European-style bath house in Chicago.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

Odd, decrepit fountain honors Chicago author who had mixed feelings about his hometown.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

The faint remains of a Polish news empire still linger.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.