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

Narrowest house in Boston.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

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

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

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

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

This is the house that spite built.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

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

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

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

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.