Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

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

This general store near Boston was once owned by Henry Ford, who had it relocated to a different town using a team of oxen.

"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."

A massive rotating globe sits at the center of Babson Park.

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

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This small stone chapel is a hidden gem just outside the University of New Hampshire campus.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

This memorial garden is the final resting place of many beloved pets including that of a famous explorer.

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.