The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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

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

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

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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

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

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

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

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.