Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."

Explore the odd assortment of items that have washed up on the beaches of Plum Island.

An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

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

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

A quirky museum paying tribute to the history of the optical industry.

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

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

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

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.

The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.

A single room pays homage to the prodigious achievements of the 30th President of the United States.

This art display in Dedham honors a local fish, and is dedicated to the volunteers who restored the canal.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.