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

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

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

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

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

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

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

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

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.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

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

An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.