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

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

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

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

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

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

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

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

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

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

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

Small shop offering mail-order rare and exotic plants.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.