This building is more than 250 years old and was built in one of the first towns settled in Massachusetts.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

"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."

This castle constructed in 1928 was crafted from drawings of Lismore Castle in Ireland.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.