Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

These cliff-dwellings might be Mexico's least visited archaeological site.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

This collection of historical artifacts and tropical wildlife waits just beneath the surface of the water.

This Denmark theme park is part family attraction, part experimental archaeology project.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

One of just five sand-floor Jewish synagogues in the world.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

This collection of 20th-century toys is filled with a lifelong personal toy collection brought from the U.S. to Amsterdam.

This vast collection of smoking pipes from across the world spans centuries.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

Israel's first dedicated natural history museum is home to 5 million specimens and still growing.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.