Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

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

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

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

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.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The oldest playground in America.

A gift to the children of Boston, this bronze bear represents playfulness, a spirit of love, and the warmth of big hugs.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Created by a local artist, these quirky sculptures each have their own names and personalities.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Commemorating the 1948 creation of the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based cancer charity.

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

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

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

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