The middle finger of modernity.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

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

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

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

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

This is the house that spite built.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

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

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

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

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