A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

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

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

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

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

This memorial honors the performers who died when two trains collided.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying The Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

This experiment in the lifespan of seeds will take a century before it is complete.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

This mechanical wonder towers above a river in Michigan's capital city.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.