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

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

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.