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

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

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

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

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

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

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

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

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

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

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.