The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

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

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

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

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

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

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 bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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