This art display in Dedham honors a local fish, and is dedicated to the volunteers who restored the canal.

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

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

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

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

A Medieval Water Tower in the Heart of Massachusetts.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

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

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

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

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

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

"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."

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

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.