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

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

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

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

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

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

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

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.