Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

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

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

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

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

A former factory now pays tribute to a local industry fueled by sardines.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.