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

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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

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

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

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

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

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

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

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

Largest institutional collection of tomb figures from Western Mexico in the United States.

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.