This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Taxidermy reptiles and rodents put on quite the show at this local history museum.

Wander the sprawling living museum on the site of one of a 16th-century community.

America's first public lending library began with a gift from Benjamin Franklin.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

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.

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

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

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

This memorial garden is the final resting place of many beloved pets including that of a famous explorer.

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

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

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.