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

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

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

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

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

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

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.

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

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

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

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

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

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.