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

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

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

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

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

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.