This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

"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.

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 defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

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

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.