"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."

America's first public lending library began with a gift from Benjamin Franklin.

A stone marker dedicated to the “Father of American Education.”

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

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

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

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

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

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

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

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.