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

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

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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

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

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

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

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.