This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

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

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

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

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.

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

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

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

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

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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

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

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