Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

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

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

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

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

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.