Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

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

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

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

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The official peace statue of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

The supreme shrine of the state.

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

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

The name of the only golden Buddhist temple in Korea translates as "the temple that protects the country."

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.