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

Its unique collection details the history of the state's svelte railroads.

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

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

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

The final resting place of the first American-born professional magician.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.