The former location of a platform that allowed passengers to safely wait for the trolley.

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

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

"Try not to knock anything over!"

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

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

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

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

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

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

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

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.