This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

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

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

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

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

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

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

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

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

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

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

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.