The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

This is the house that spite built.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

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

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

Located in Faneuil Hall, the headquarters of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts has stood the test of time.