MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

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

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

Located in Faneuil Hall, the headquarters of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts has stood the test of time.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

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

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

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

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

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

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

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