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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

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

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This mosaic commemorates the oldest subway tunnel and station in the United States.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A pair of antique trolleys are on display at one of the oldest subway stations in the United States.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

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

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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