A quirky museum paying tribute to the history of the optical industry.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

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

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

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.