A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

"Try not to knock anything over!"

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.