The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Narrowest house in Boston.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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

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.

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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

This nature mural exists to protect the surrounding environment and its own canvas from destruction.

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

If a visit to this farmhouse feels as if you are stepping into an artistic masterpiece, you’d be right.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.