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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

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

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

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 of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

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

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

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

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

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

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