Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

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

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

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

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

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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

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

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

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

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

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

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

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