Designed to honor all those that work as nurses around the globe.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

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

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

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

Located in Faneuil Hall, the headquarters of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts has stood the test of time.

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

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

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

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

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

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

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

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