This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

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

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

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

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

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

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

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

"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."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.