MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

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

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

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

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

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

This is the house that spite built.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

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

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.