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

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

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

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

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

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

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

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

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.