Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Small shop offering mail-order rare and exotic plants.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

The official peace statue of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The only remaining place where you can play this century-old game for cash.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

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

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

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

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.