This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

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

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history, this memorial has faced its fair share of backlash.