This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

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

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

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

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

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

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

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

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

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.