A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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

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

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

Expertly restored pinball machines as far as the eye can see.

A small obelisk marks the spot where Captain Sam Greele was killed by a falling tree.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

This New England drive-in was built to straddle the border between two states.

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.