Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

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

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

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

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

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

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

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

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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