This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

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

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

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

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A Swiss amusement park entirely dedicated to the theory of ancient astronauts.

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."