Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

This is the house that spite built.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

Eco-friendly island mansion.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

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

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.