Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

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

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

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

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

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

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.