Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

The gravestone of the man who designed the plastic pink flamingo is adorned with his most famous creation.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

A unique work of art that was created without permission.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

One of the smallest churches in the United States is located along the side of the road in a residential neighborhood.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

A small obelisk commemorates the launch site of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

This statue is a commemoration of the only place where Freud spoke in the United States.

Dedicated to one of the world's first Black international, athletic superstars.

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.