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These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

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

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

The oldest playground in America.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

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

This donated headstone marks the grave of a pair of elderly women who were mysteriously murdered.

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

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.