One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

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

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

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

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

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

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.

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

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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

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

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

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