Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

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

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

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

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.