A man in a plane delivers Christmas packages to lighthouses.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

This 50-foot rock formation looked like a face that was once believed to be that of a Native American chief.

In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

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

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

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

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

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

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

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.