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.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

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

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

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

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.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The tunnel under the Capitol Building where Congress takes out its trash.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.