I'm standing in front of one of the weirdest things you can see in the city of Boston.

All around me, there was like these big new giant condo buildings, glass, really tall.

And then on one side, there's like a government office building.

There is a highway overpass behind me.

And right in the middle of this busy intersection, like on this little sort of triangular wedge

is this short little squat tenement building.

It's brick, it's four stories high.

And you can tell that it used to be part of like a row of identical homes because there's

no windows on either the side, they're just flat.

And today there's like a big iPhone billboard on the side.

And this building totally looks out of place with everything around it.

It looks like it was cut and pasted out of like an old historical map.

It looks like it was just forgotten here.

I'm Amanda McGowan and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible

and wondrous places.

And today we're taking you to the last tenement in Boston's Old West End.

It used to be one of the city's most diverse communities and has since come to represent

everything that can go wrong with urban planning.

We'll visit the Old West End after this.

Today, there's not much that's physically left of Boston's Old West End.

It was demolished in the 1950s as part of an urban renewal campaign, which is kind of

a euphemistic way of saying that this neighborhood was torn down to make a way for housing for

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