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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

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

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

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

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

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

Established in 1925, Kiddie Park claims to be the oldest amusement park in the U.S. - a cozy little time warp nestled in a shady corner of the modern world.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.