The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

The oldest tavern in Lowell has dedicated fans of its fan.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

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

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

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

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

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

"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."

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

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.