An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

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.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

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

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

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

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

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

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

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

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

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.