Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

This clock tower is all that remains of Bird Hall, constructed by one of the founding families of this Massachusetts town.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

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

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

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

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

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

Built in 1821 using rooms from another estate, the Phillips House is the only historic home on scenic Chestnut Street open to the public.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

A small, red building located along a state highway where the 18th Vice President made shoes in his youth.

The American author whose "rags-to-riches" stories were popular during the Gilded Age.

The monument is inscribed, "To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians Whose Bones Lie Here”.