One of 100 “Whaling Wall" murals painted in 13 different countries by a renowned marine life artist.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

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

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.