Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

This building is more than 250 years old and was built in one of the first towns settled in Massachusetts.

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.

This museum dedicated to local history is housed in the state's oldest surviving fire station.

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

The owner of one of the oldest homes in Amherst had a unique request before the home could be turned into a museum.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

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

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

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Take a step inside the picturesque studio of America’s most renowned sculptor.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.

One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.

This art display in Dedham honors a local fish, and is dedicated to the volunteers who restored the canal.

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

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.

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

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

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.