The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

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

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The first newspaper printed by an expeditionary force was published in this colonial mansion.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

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