The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

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

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

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

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

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

This hidden labyrinth offers walkers some brief peace of mind.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

"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."

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

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

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

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

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

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

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

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.