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

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

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

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

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