Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

A massive rotating globe sits at the center of Babson Park.

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.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

Narrowest house in Boston.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

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

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

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.