A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

A small plaque promises cold, hard cash in exchange for work by the famous pop artist.

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

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

The monument is inscribed, "To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians Whose Bones Lie Here”.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

Designed to honor all those that work as nurses around the globe.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

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

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

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

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

A stretch of New Hampshire lake water is the only ice runway in the lower 48 states that is FAA-approved.

Near the summit of Mount Washington, a stone monument remembers a life lost to one of the mountain's infamous storms.

This small, unassuming, nursery plays hosts to some unique plant life.

This small stone chapel is a hidden gem just outside the University of New Hampshire campus.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.