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

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

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

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

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

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

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

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

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

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

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

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

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

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