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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

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

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

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

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

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

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

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

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

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

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

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

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