Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

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

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

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

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

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

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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.

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

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

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

Commemorating the 1948 creation of the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based cancer charity.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.