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

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

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

This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.

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

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Narrowest house in Boston.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

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

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

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.