Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."

A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

Expertly restored pinball machines as far as the eye can see.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.