"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

"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."

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

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.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

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

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

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

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

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

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