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

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

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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."

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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

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

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