This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

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

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

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

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.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.