An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

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

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

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

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

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

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

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

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

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