Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

Off a back road near Waterville Valley, one can find a castle turret built by an eccentric reverend over 100 years ago.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Historic house still contains bullet holes from an overlooked battle of the American Revolution.

Dedicated to a college founder's alleged ancestor who was martyred in 1555.

A dedication plaque on this Boston tunnel is a microcosm of a massive, controversy-laden construction project.

A small plaque promises cold, hard cash in exchange for work by the famous pop artist.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This plaque is dedicated to one-half of the Magliozzi brothers and their hit radio show, 'Car Talk.'

This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

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

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

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

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.