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

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

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

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

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

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."