A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

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

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

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

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

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

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

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