The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

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

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

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

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

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

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

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

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

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 Old Man of the Mountain’s less-famous, but still beloved little brother is said to resemble a leader of the Abenaki tribe.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Packed with gear and memorabilia, this museum chronicles the history of skiing and how its rise shaped New England.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

"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."