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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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

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

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

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

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

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.