A local prank turned town icon.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

"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."

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.