Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

An inclusive, climate-resilient playground honors the life of a young Boston Marathon bombing victim.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This steep slide at a kids’ playground went viral after an police officer tumbled down it.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

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

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

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

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

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.