The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

Commemorating the 1948 creation of the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based cancer charity.

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

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

An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.

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

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

This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

This is the house that spite built.

A small plaque promises cold, hard cash in exchange for work by the famous pop artist.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

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