Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Narrowest house in Boston.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

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

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

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

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.