This museum details the history of a local miracle: The return of the critically endangered black-footed ferret, which was once believed to be extinct.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

This family-owned restaurant celebrates Native American cuisine.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

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

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

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

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

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

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

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

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

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

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.