Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

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

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

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

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

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

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

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

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

Narrowest house in Boston.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

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

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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