Eastham, Massachusetts
Billingsgate Island
The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.
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Eastham, Massachusetts
The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.
Watertown, Massachusetts
Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.
Brookline, Massachusetts
This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.
Quincy, Massachusetts
From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.
Somerville, Massachusetts
The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.
Boston, Massachusetts
Radical Bookstore and Community Space.
Boston, Massachusetts
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.
Danbury, Connecticut
This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.
Pomfret, Connecticut
A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.
Wolfeboro, New Hampshire
The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.
Salem, New Hampshire
America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.
Rangeley, Maine
Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.
Cavendish, Vermont
The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.
Bellows Falls, Vermont
These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.
Shelburne, Vermont
A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.
Montreal, Québec
Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.
Montreal, Québec
One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.