This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

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

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

This is the house that spite built.

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

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...