In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

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

This replica of a historic fishing shack long dubbed the most painted building in America.

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

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

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

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

Dedicated to nine marines from Massachusetts who perished during the Beirut bombings.

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.

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

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

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Former home of an abolitionist couple who escaped slavery and established the most active Underground Railroad stop in Boston.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.