An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

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

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

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

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

This Victorian home turned opera house may have a phantom of its own.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

This Peruvian-Chinese institution has perfected the art of rotisserie chicken—alongside plantains and lo mein.

The best revenge is a five-tiered layer cake of a dwelling.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.