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

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

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

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

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

Created by a local artist, these quirky sculptures each have their own names and personalities.

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

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

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The colonial home of Paul Revere during the American Revolution.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.

The first transatlantic wireless communication between the U.S. and Europe took place here in 1903.

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.