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

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

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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

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.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

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.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

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

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

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

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

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.