An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

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

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

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

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

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

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

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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

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

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

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

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

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

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

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

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

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

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

This mural celebrates the early integration of a New Hampshire baseball team.