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

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

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

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

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

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

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

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

This is the house that spite built.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

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

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

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