Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.

Created by a local artist, these quirky sculptures each have their own names and personalities.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

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

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.

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

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

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

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

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

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

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