Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

Located in Faneuil Hall, the headquarters of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts has stood the test of time.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

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

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

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

Where Eunice Williams was murdered by natives, and where locals say her ghost still haunts.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.