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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

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

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

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.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

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

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

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

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

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

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

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.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.