Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

"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."

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

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