Boston, Massachusetts
Berkeley Weather Beacon
A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.
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Boston, Massachusetts
A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.
Boston, Massachusetts
A 17th-century Japanese bell brought back by U.S. sailors after WWII and later gifted as a symbol of peace.
Boston, Massachusetts
This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.
Boston, Massachusetts
This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.
Yonkers, New York
Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.
Laporte Township, Pennsylvania
The forest has reclaimed nearly everything—streets included—from this failed Pennsylvania "City of Heaven" that was once deeded directly to God.
Bangor, Maine
This 1.5 million-gallon water tower inspired Stephen King while he was writing "It."
Etna, Maine
A major spiritual gathering place in central Maine since the mid-1800s.
Manchester, Maine
A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.
Amesbury, Massachusetts
Explore the odd assortment of items that have washed up on the beaches of Plum Island.
Danbury, Connecticut
Star-spangled and 38 feet tall.
West Hartford, Connecticut
Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.
Orange, Connecticut
The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.
Salem, Massachusetts
Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.
Salem, Massachusetts
A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum.
Salem, Massachusetts
A cheeky name, colorful merchandise, and spooky ghost stories
Boston, Massachusetts
In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.
Boston, Massachusetts
The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.
Boston, Massachusetts
Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
Boston, Massachusetts
America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.
Fall River, Massachusetts
This monument, 60 feet tall and 30 feet wide, is an exact replica of one in Ponta Delgada, Azores.