Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Designed to honor all those that work as nurses around the globe.

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

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.

Dedicated to nine marines from Massachusetts who perished during the Beirut bombings.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.