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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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

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

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

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

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

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