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

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

One of the oldest carousels in the United States is still running in the coastal village of Watch Hill.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Designed to honor all those that work as nurses around the globe.

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

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

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

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.