Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

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

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

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

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

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

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.