This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

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

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

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

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 massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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

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

This rare archive of original recordings and photos uncovers the early days of hip hop culture.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

The magic's in the hole!

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

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 peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.