Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

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

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

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

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

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

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

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

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

"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."

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.

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

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

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.