Worcester, Massachusetts
Bancroft Tower
This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.
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Worcester, Massachusetts
This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.
Salem, Massachusetts
Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.
Concord, Massachusetts
This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.
Rutland, Massachusetts
The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.
Newton, Massachusetts
A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.
Boston, Massachusetts
Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.
Lincoln, Massachusetts
No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.
Medfield, Massachusetts
Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.
Boston, Massachusetts
19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!
Holyoke, Massachusetts
The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.
Mount Washington, Massachusetts
One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.
Boston, Massachusetts
The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.
Salem, Massachusetts
The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.
Salem, Massachusetts
A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.
Boston, Massachusetts
Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.
Boston, Massachusetts
Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.
Boston, Massachusetts
A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.