A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

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

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

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

Former home of an abolitionist couple who escaped slavery and established the most active Underground Railroad stop in Boston.

The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

The largest collection of works by a pioneering Black woman sculptor is on display at this Massachusetts art museum.

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

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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

Historic home of a Black veteran of the American Revolution and one of the earliest civil rights activists in the United States.

The former home of a Boston physician whose murder led to a revolution in forensic science.

Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

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

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

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

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

All that remains of the former site of the final home of president Franklin Pierce.