The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

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

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

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

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

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

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

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

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

"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."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

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

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.