A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

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

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

The oldest playground in America.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

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

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

America’s oldest community theater, this Boston club has been in operation since 1877.

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

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

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

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

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

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