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.

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

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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.

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

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

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

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

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.