On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

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

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

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.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

The last remaining attraction from Paragon Park.

One of the earliest graveyards in the region.

A tiny town in an empty lot was the work of a local eight-year-old.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

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

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

Julia Buccola Petta's body was peculiarly well-preserved when it was exhumed six years after her death.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.