An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

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

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

This is the house that spite built.

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.

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

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

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

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

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.