The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

The tennis legend used this racket while breaking the race barrier and becoming the first Black man to win the US Open.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

The world's largest collection of historic U.S. military naval vessels.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

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

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

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

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

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

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

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