A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

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

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

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

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

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

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

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

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

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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