The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

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

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

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

"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."

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

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

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

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

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