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

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

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

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

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

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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.

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

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