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

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

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

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.

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

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.