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

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."

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

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

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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.

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

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

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

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.