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

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

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

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

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

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

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

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

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

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

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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.

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

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

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

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

One car at a time please.