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.

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

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

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.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

The scars of a remarkably organized public protest to save 13 elm trees are still visible in this Stockholm park.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

Looking strangely like Rome's Colosseum, this unfinished tower has dominated the skyline for over 100 years.