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

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

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

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

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

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

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

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

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

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.