Boston, Massachusetts
Site of the Boston Tax Riot
One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.
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Boston, Massachusetts
One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.
Boston, Massachusetts
Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Boston, Massachusetts
This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.
Boston, Massachusetts
The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.
Boston, Massachusetts
A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.
Boston, Massachusetts
This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.
Boston, Massachusetts
This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.
Boston, Massachusetts
A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.
Somerville, Massachusetts
The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.
Milford, New Hampshire
This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.
Watertown, Massachusetts
Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.
Kittery, Maine
Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Watertown, Massachusetts
The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."
Princeton, Massachusetts
The haunting history of a little girl lost.
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.
Saugus, Massachusetts
The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.
Lincoln, Massachusetts
No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.