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

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

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

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

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

This is the house that spite built.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

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

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

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

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

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

Small shop offering mail-order rare and exotic plants.

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.