America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

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

This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

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

A memorial to Chinese freedom in the city where American freedom was born.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

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

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.