Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

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

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

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

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

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

Located in Faneuil Hall, the headquarters of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts has stood the test of time.

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

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

An underground city of salt.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

The most confusing clock in New York.