The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

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

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

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

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

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

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

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.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

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

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