Grafton, Massachusetts
Willard House & Clock Museum
The world's most comprehensive collection of Willard timepieces is a celebration of early American clockmaking.
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Grafton, Massachusetts
The world's most comprehensive collection of Willard timepieces is a celebration of early American clockmaking.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.
Worcester, Massachusetts
The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.
Worcester, Massachusetts
On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.
Sutton, Massachusetts
This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.
Webster, Massachusetts
It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!
Sturbridge, Massachusetts
The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.
Leicester, Massachusetts
The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.
Milford, Delaware
Live chainsaw carvings of tiki statues aim to keep a tradition with ancient roots alive in this small Delaware town.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania
Metal monsters made from repurposed materials lurk alongside this Pennsylvania road.
Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania
A monument to an Irish secret society thought to be responsible for a string of violent attacks in Pennsylvania coal mines.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Milan, New Hampshire
This site was once the largest ski jump tower in the world.
North Adams, Massachusetts
The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.
Williamstown, Massachusetts
This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.