This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

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

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.

"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."

The American author whose "rags-to-riches" stories were popular during the Gilded Age.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

A small, red building located along a state highway where the 18th Vice President made shoes in his youth.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

A historic pub with traditional Irish cuisine, fine drinks, and a paranormal past.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

A small obelisk commemorates the launch site of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

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