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

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

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

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

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Narrowest house in Boston.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

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