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This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

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

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

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

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

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

This is the house that spite built.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The home of the founder of American landscape architecture puts his principles into practice.

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

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

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.

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

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

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

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

A neglected and disused parking garage ramp has become home street artists to share their art.

The aviator lived here from 1924 until she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane in 1928.

This Victorian home turned opera house may have a phantom of its own.