"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."

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

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

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

A replica of fossils believed to be the first scientifically-described dinosaur bones found in North America.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

Second largest wastewater treatment plant in the country.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

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

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.