A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

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.

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

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.