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

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

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

Welcome sign announcing Haverhill, MA, as the birthplace of horror rocker/artist/director Rob Zombie.

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

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

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

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