A stone marker dedicated to the “Father of American Education.”

Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

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

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

Created by a local artist, these quirky sculptures each have their own names and personalities.

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

Mural fragments and various sculptures honor the longtime artist.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

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

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

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

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

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