Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

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

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

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

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

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

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

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

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

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

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

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

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.