This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

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

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

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

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

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

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

Dedicated to the neverending mathematical constant, this plaque next to a park bench was sponsored by an anonymous benefactor.

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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.