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

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

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

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.