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

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

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

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

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

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

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

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

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

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

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

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.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

This is the house that spite built.