This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

This area was once known for being a lawless haven for rough-and-tumble sailors, earning the maritime-themed nickname "the black sea."

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

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

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

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

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

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

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

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

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

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.