Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

This memorial is dedicated to a once popular but now defunct discount Shrewsbury department store.

A dedication plaque on this Boston tunnel is a microcosm of a massive, controversy-laden construction project.

A monument to the winner of the 1946 Boston Marathon, Greek runner Stylianos Kyriakides.

The birthplace of the man who patented the cotton gin and pioneered interchangeable parts.

A gift to the children of Boston, this bronze bear represents playfulness, a spirit of love, and the warmth of big hugs.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.

Commemorating the 1948 creation of the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based cancer charity.

This general store near Boston was once owned by Henry Ford, who had it relocated to a different town using a team of oxen.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

Built in 1821 using rooms from another estate, the Phillips House is the only historic home on scenic Chestnut Street open to the public.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

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

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

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

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

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."