Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

An inclusive, climate-resilient playground honors the life of a young Boston Marathon bombing victim.

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

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

A dedication plaque on this Boston tunnel is a microcosm of a massive, controversy-laden construction project.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

In 1898, a New England storm that claimed more than 400 lives created this brand new stretch of shoreline.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

Though a proud Texan, the 41st President of the United States started life in the suburbs of Boston.