"Try not to knock anything over!"

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 stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

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

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

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

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

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

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

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

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.