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

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

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

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

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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

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.

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.

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

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.