This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

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

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

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

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

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

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

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

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

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

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

This is the house that spite built.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.