Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

"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."

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Narrowest house in Boston.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

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

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

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

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

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

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

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

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.