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A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

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

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

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

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

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

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

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

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

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

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.