Boston, Massachusetts
Copp's Hill Burying Ground
This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.
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Boston, Massachusetts
This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.
Boston, Massachusetts
Narrowest house in Boston.
Boston, Massachusetts
Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.
Boston, Massachusetts
This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.
Boston, Massachusetts
This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.
Boston, Massachusetts
An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.
New York, New York
Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.
Brooklyn, New York
The factory for the popular Dumbo location, the Greenpoint shop is a quiet gem.
Brooklyn, New York
Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.
Brooklyn, New York
Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.
Brooklyn, New York
A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.
Brooklyn, New York
2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.
New York, New York
A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.
New York, New York
New York City's first Modernist house.
New York, New York
Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.
New York, New York
Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.
New York, New York
New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.
New York, New York
This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.
Brooklyn, New York
This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, New York
A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.
New York, New York
A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.
Brooklyn, New York
Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.