A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

Created by a local artist, these quirky sculptures each have their own names and personalities.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

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

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

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

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

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

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

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.

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

The site of the daring river crossing that changed the course of the American Revolution.