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

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

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

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

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

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

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.