America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

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

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

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

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

The former home of the oldest nail maker in the United States was built on the ashes of a mill burned by the British.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

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

A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.

A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."

Some big-name visitors have patronized this small-town library named for an oil man's daughter.

"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."

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.