At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

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

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

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

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

This is the house that spite built.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.