This clock tower is all that remains of Bird Hall, constructed by one of the founding families of this Massachusetts town.

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.

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

The oldest playground in America.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

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

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

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

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

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

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