Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

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

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

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

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

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.