One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

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

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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.