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

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

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

A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.

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

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

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

The dress young Pierce wore prior to his breeching ceremony in the early 1800s is now on display for all to see.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.