The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

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

This is the house that spite built.

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.

"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."

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

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

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

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

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

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.