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

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

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

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

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

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

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

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

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Narrowest house in Boston.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

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

Designed to honor all those that work as nurses around the globe.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

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

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.