The world's best collection to gauge whether or not you should wear a scarf outside.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Dedicated in 1895, this is the world's first tribute to the hardworking newspaper delivery boy.

This penny stopped a bullet and saved a soldier’s life during the American Civil War.

The oldest brick saltbox house in America.

A stone marker dedicated to the “Father of American Education.”

This historic Victorian mansion is allegedly so haunted that a signed waiver is required to enter.

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

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

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

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

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

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.