Narrowest house in Boston.

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

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 site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

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

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.