Architectural Oddities in Massachusetts

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

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

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

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

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

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

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

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

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

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