This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

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

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

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

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

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

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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...

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

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

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

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

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