Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

Narrowest house in Boston.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

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

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

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

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

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

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

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

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

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