Places Mattielighhht Wants to Go

This interactive museum is dedicated to the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” and founder of one of the nation’s earliest boomtowns.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

This memorial is dedicated to a once popular but now defunct discount Shrewsbury department store.

The world's most comprehensive collection of Willard timepieces is a celebration of early American clockmaking.

The birthplace of the man who patented the cotton gin and pioneered interchangeable parts.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

The gravestone of the man who designed the plastic pink flamingo is adorned with his most famous creation.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

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

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

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

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

The final resting place of a man who claimed that he could tame even the mightiest of bears.

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.