This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

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

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

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

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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

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