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

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

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.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

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

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."

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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