In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

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

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

"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."

Narrowest house in Boston.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.