Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history, this memorial has faced its fair share of backlash.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

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

This plaque is dedicated to one-half of the Magliozzi brothers and their hit radio show, 'Car Talk.'

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

The oldest playground in America.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

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

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

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Second largest wastewater treatment plant in the country.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.