Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

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

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

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

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.

This modern medieval weapon of war was built to toss pumpkins.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.