Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

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

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

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

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

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

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

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

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

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

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

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Always a new use for this old building.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.