Packed with gear and memorabilia, this museum chronicles the history of skiing and how its rise shaped New England.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

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

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

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

"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."

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

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.