A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

A man in a plane delivers Christmas packages to lighthouses.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

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

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

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

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

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

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

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

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.