Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

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

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

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

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

Locals say Williams's ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

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

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

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

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.