Iconic red and white plaques show the creative names invented to navigate the city streets.

This often-overlooked ocean walkway was once considered an impossible fantasy.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

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

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

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

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

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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

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

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

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.