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Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

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

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

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

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

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

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

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

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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

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

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

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