A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

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

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

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

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

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

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

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

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.