Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

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

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

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

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

The world's best collection to gauge whether or not you should wear a scarf outside.

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

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

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

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

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This path is named for a mythical half-boar, half-deer creature that once roamed the Green Mountains.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.