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

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This art display in Dedham honors a local fish, and is dedicated to the volunteers who restored the canal.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

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

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

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

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

This is the house that spite built.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

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

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

"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."

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

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

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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