One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Where Eunice Williams was murdered by natives, and where locals say her ghost still haunts.

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

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

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

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

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

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

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

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

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

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

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

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

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

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

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