Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

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

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

A massive rotating globe sits at the center of Babson Park.

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

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

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

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

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

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

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

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.