This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

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

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

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

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

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.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.