This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

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

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

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

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.