Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

This area was once known for being a lawless haven for rough-and-tumble sailors, earning the maritime-themed nickname "the black sea."

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

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

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

This is the house that spite built.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

"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."

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

University of New Hampshire holds the documentation and artifacts of local alien abductees.

The only one of New Hampshire's original 14 World War II watchtowers to survive in near-original condition.