Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

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

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

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

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

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

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

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

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.