This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

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

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

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

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

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Yo, Adrian!

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

Through the decades, Black music stars have performed at this historic hub for music and the arts.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.