Once luxurious, these oceanfront beach homes have been left to succumb to the elements as the beach is slowly washed away.

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

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

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

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

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

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

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

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

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

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

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

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.