The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

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

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

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.

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

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

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.