An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

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

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

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

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

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

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

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