Generations of rockhounds got their start at this beloved, historic mine.

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

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

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

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.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

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

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

This location of a Mexican chain restaurant has a unique location: an old jail.

This mural celebrates the early integration of a New Hampshire baseball team.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

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

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

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