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

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

This general store near Boston was once owned by Henry Ford, who had it relocated to a different town using a team of oxen.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

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

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.