Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

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

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

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

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

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

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

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

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.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

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

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

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

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

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