Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

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

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

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

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

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

A gift to the children of Boston, this bronze bear represents playfulness, a spirit of love, and the warmth of big hugs.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

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

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.