Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

A massive rotating globe sits at the center of Babson Park.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

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

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

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

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

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

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

Traveling this mountain pass reveals quaint stone buildings, stunning Irish scenery, and a bridge said to grant wishes.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

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

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.

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