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

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

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

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

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

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

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

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

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

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

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