Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

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

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

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

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

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

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

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

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

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

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

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

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

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

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.