Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

This historic home of the shag is keeping a Southern dance tradition going strong.

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

The two locations of this landmark ice cream shop scream pure Americana nostalgia.

A lake that borders Kazakhstan and Russia allegedly harbors the giant "Terror Trout" or "Chinese Nessie."