What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

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

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

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

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

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

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

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

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

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

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

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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

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

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