Home to items never before seen by the public.

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

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

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

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

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

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

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

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

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

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

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

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