Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

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

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

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

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

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

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

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

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

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.