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

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

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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.

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

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.

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

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

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

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

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

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

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