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

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

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

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

Who is this marble man, perpetually creeping up the steps of his own mausoleum?

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

The oldest playground in America.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.