Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

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

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

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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.

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

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

The world's longest known cave system.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.