Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

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

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

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

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

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

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

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

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