These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

The monument is inscribed, "To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians Whose Bones Lie Here”.

The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.

A tribute to Samuel Wilson, who may be the original "Uncle Sam."

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

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

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

Money may not grow on trees, but it can be dispensed by one.

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

The official peace statue of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

One man built this massive wall to keep his neighbor from complaining about working on Sundays.

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

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

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

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.