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

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

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

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

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.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

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

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

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