This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

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

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

A historic bridge no one is allowed to cross.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

The oldest playground in America.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

A massive rotating globe sits at the center of Babson Park.

Designed to represent the mushroom clouds the artists witnessed during nuclear testing.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

A tribute to Samuel Wilson, who may be the original "Uncle Sam."

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

Historic seaside park featuring explorable, abandoned military structures.

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

The first woman in the United States to get a driver's license is buried here.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.