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

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

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

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

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

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

Commemorating the 1948 creation of the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based cancer charity.

The oldest playground in America.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

A work of art that pays homage to a Victorian timepiece in Providence.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.