The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

An enigmatic monument to the Irish revolutionary who plotted an uprising against British rule.

On high feast days, the entire blue-glass front of this modern church opens up to reveal the small wooden church inside.

These relics of the city's past now exist as a prominent modern feature.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

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

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

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

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

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

This is the house that spite built.