A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

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

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

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

"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."

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

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

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Narrowest house in Boston.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

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

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.