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

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

This 50-foot rock formation looked like a face that was once believed to be that of a Native American chief.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

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

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

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.