This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

This lone survivor of a regional franchise still slings delicious burgers and colossal servings of fries.

Down a pint of ale where the Bishop of Ely's servants slept in 1546.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

The boulder is a landmark, public art, and an icon.

A man in a plane delivers Christmas packages to lighthouses.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

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

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

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

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

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

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

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

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

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

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.