This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.

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

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

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

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

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

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

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

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

"Try not to knock anything over!"

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Owned by no one but beloved by all, Brownie was a good dog.

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.