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

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

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

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

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

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

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

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

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

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

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

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

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

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

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Narrowest house in Boston.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.