An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

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

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

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

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

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

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

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

This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

This mural celebrates the early integration of a New Hampshire baseball team.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

Commemorating the 1948 creation of the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based cancer charity.

This hidden labyrinth offers walkers some brief peace of mind.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This stone in Lexington honors a formerly enslaved man who fought during the American Revolution.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.