Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

The histories of modern Chinese literature and anti-Japanese resistance collide in this Shanghai park.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

A tribute to Samuel Wilson, who may be the original "Uncle Sam."

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

This stone in Lexington honors a formerly enslaved man who fought during the American Revolution.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

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

This castle constructed in 1928 was crafted from drawings of Lismore Castle in Ireland.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

Designed to honor all those that work as nurses around the globe.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.