An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

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

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.