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

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

"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."

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

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

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Become a prohibition rebel.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

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

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.