A historic pub with traditional Irish cuisine, fine drinks, and a paranormal past.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

This general store near Boston was once owned by Henry Ford, who had it relocated to a different town using a team of oxen.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

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

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

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

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

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

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

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

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

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

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.