The birthplace of the man who patented the cotton gin and pioneered interchangeable parts.

In 1777, two men were killed after being struck by lightning at the same time.

The final resting place of a free Black soldier who played a pivotal role in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

The Inuit kayak from Robert Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland is now on display at a local library.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

Location of the first public performance and singing of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

This penny stopped a bullet and saved a soldier’s life during the American Civil War.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A plaque pays tribute to the artist's longtime London home.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

Home of one of history's most famous cartoonists just as he left it.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

This plaque is dedicated to one-half of the Magliozzi brothers and their hit radio show, 'Car Talk.'

A patch of contaminated land reclaimed as a scrappy sculptural oasis.

Once an integral part of Native American life, very few of these communal New England stones have survived to the present day.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.