The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

The oldest playground in America.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

This donated headstone marks the grave of a pair of elderly women who were mysteriously murdered.

In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

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

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

The only remaining place where you can play this century-old game for cash.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.