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

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

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

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

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

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

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

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

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

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

Commemorating the 1948 creation of the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based cancer charity.

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

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.