This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

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

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

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

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

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

This hidden labyrinth offers walkers some brief peace of mind.

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

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

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

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

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.

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

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

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

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

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

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

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.