One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

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

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

This 50-foot rock formation looked like a face that was once believed to be that of a Native American chief.

Second largest wastewater treatment plant in the country.

A man in a plane delivers Christmas packages to lighthouses.

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

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

The only remaining place where you can play this century-old game for cash.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.