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.

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

Where Eunice Williams was murdered by natives, and where locals say her ghost still haunts.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

This is the house that spite built.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.