Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

The oldest playground in America.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.

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

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

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

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

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

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

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

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.