A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

Where Eunice Williams was murdered by natives, and where locals say her ghost still haunts.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

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

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

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

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

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

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

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