This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

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

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

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

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

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

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

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

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

"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."

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.