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

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

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

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

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

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

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

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This is the house that spite built.

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

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.