One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

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

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

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

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

A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.

The world's best collection to gauge whether or not you should wear a scarf outside.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.