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

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

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

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

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

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

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

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

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

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.