This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

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

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

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

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

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

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.