What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

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

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

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

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

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

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

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

This area was once known for being a lawless haven for rough-and-tumble sailors, earning the maritime-themed nickname "the black sea."

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

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

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.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

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

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

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

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

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

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

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