Places Pengwn Wants to Go

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This is the house that spite built.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

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

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