Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

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

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

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

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

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

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

"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.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

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.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.