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

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

This New England drive-in was built to straddle the border between two states.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

This modern medieval weapon of war was built to toss pumpkins.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

Descendants of this colonial Pennsylvania family still travel from far and wide to visit the 300-year-old home of their Quaker ancestors.