This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

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.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

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

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

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

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

An unlikely neo-Gothic castle in the Paraguayan countryside.

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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

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

A couple's 60-year love of collecting is on display at this unique stove repair shop in Maine.

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.