A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.