This mosaic commemorates the oldest subway tunnel and station in the United States.

The bench featured in the film with Robin Williams and Matt Damon has become a popular destination for moviegoers.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

This plaque is dedicated to a historic hotel’s Canine Ambassador and the subject of two children’s books.

This historic house was the birthplace and childhood home of the 35th president of the United States.

This imperial marble stele was given to Harvard by Chinese alumni in the 1930s.

A perfectly crafted Pre-Columbian artifact dating back to 600 CE.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

This historic World War II ship is one of only 4 Fletcher-class destroyers remaining worldwide.

This replica of a historic fishing shack long dubbed the most painted building in America.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

An inn older than the Witch Trials.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

The first handmade canoe built by members of the Passamaquoddy in over a century.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

This Manhattan skyscraper is a reminder of the brief but glorious age of urban air taxis.