Brookline, Massachusetts
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
The home of the founder of American landscape architecture puts his principles into practice.
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Brookline, Massachusetts
The home of the founder of American landscape architecture puts his principles into practice.
Salem, Massachusetts
A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum.
Boston, Massachusetts
A pair of antique trolleys are on display at one of the oldest subway stations in the United States.
Boston, Massachusetts
Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.
Boston, Massachusetts
Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.
Boston, Massachusetts
Museum dedicated to awful artwork.
Waltham, Massachusetts
A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.
Watertown, Massachusetts
Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.
Medford, Massachusetts
The preserved historic home of the largest slave-owning family in Massachusetts serves as a memorial and a testament to the history of enslavement and abolition in the state
Montreal, Québec
The vaulted ceiling is home to a scurry of “squirrelgoyles.”
Montreal, Québec
This hidden park hosts a rogue’s gallery of eccentric architectural obelisks.
Montreal, Québec
Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.
Montreal, Québec
Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.
Montreal, Québec
Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.
Montreal, Québec
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
Montreal, Québec
Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.
Boston, Massachusetts
America’s oldest community theater, this Boston club has been in operation since 1877.
Boston, Massachusetts
A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.
Boston, Massachusetts
Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.
Boston, Massachusetts
Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.
Boston, Massachusetts
"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."
Boston, Massachusetts
The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.
Boston, Massachusetts
Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.
Boston, Massachusetts
The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.