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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

America’s oldest community theater, this Boston club has been in operation since 1877.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

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

Located in Faneuil Hall, the headquarters of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts has stood the test of time.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

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

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

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

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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

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

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.