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

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

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

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

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

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

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

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

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

This iron building in the Amazon allegedly shares an architect with the Eiffel Tower.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.