This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

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

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.