Mattapoisett, Massachusetts
Salty the Seahorse
Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.
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Mattapoisett, Massachusetts
Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.
Concord, Massachusetts
This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.
Concord, Massachusetts
The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.
Boston, Massachusetts
The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.
Harvard, Massachusetts
This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A tiny monument to the classic American candy.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."
Salem, Massachusetts
Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.
Hull, Massachusetts
The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.
Needham, Massachusetts
An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.
Hull, Massachusetts
Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.
Hull, Massachusetts
Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.
Dedham, Massachusetts
This memorial garden is the final resting place of many beloved pets including that of a famous explorer.
Lynn, Massachusetts
At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.
Boston, Massachusetts
A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.
Boston, Massachusetts
Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.
Boston, Massachusetts
The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.
Lynn, Massachusetts
A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.
Newton, Massachusetts
Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.
Brookline, Massachusetts
The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.
Brookline, Massachusetts
This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.
Watertown, Massachusetts
Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.
Boston, Massachusetts
This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.