Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

This area was once known for being a lawless haven for rough-and-tumble sailors, earning the maritime-themed nickname "the black sea."

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

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

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

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

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

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

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

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

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

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

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

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

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

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

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

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

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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.