The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

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

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

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

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

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

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

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

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.