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.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

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

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.