Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

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

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

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

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

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

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

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

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

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.