Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

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

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.