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

A Medieval Water Tower in the Heart of Massachusetts.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

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

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.