It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

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

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

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

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

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

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

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

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

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

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

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

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.