When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

This American Sycamore was grown from seeds that accompanied the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

A small obelisk commemorates the launch site of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.

Enjoy egg rolls and live music in a converted bank vault.

As state high-points-by-elevation go this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

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

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A quiet spot commemorating two naturalists who had to choose between love and the university at which they both taught.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.