This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

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

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.