One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

This is the house that spite built.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

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

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

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

A five-story homage to tea times past.