The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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

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

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

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

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

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

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

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

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

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.