This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

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

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

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

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

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

This stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

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

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

The oldest playground in America.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.