One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

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

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Narrowest house in Boston.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

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

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.