This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

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

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

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

"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 railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.