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

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

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

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

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

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

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!