The colonial home of Paul Revere during the American Revolution.

This steep slide at a kids’ playground went viral after an police officer tumbled down it.

A memorial to Chinese freedom in the city where American freedom was born.

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

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

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

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

Located in Faneuil Hall, the headquarters of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts has stood the test of time.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

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

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

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

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