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

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

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

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

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

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

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

This is the house that spite built.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

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