Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

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

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

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

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

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

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

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

"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."

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

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

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.