Two stone markers honor the Nipmuc people who first settled here millennia ago.

The oldest continuously inhabited private home in the United States.

This site commemorates the birthplace of the game of basketball, invented by James Naismith in the winter of 1891.

Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

Once an integral part of Native American life, very few of these communal New England stones have survived to the present day.

This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

This statue is a commemoration of the only place where Freud spoke in the United States.

The birthplace of the man who patented the cotton gin and pioneered interchangeable parts.

This mill played a key role in the region’s development and it is just one of ten along the east coast of the United States.

This stone in Lexington honors a formerly enslaved man who fought during the American Revolution.

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

Former home of an abolitionist couple who escaped slavery and established the most active Underground Railroad stop in Boston.

One of the smallest churches in the United States is located along the side of the road in a residential neighborhood.

The monument is inscribed, "To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians Whose Bones Lie Here”.

A memorial dedicated to victims of the Irish Potato Famine who perished while quarantined on this island.

Money may not grow on trees, but it can be dispensed by one.

Dedicated to nine marines from Massachusetts who perished during the Beirut bombings.

A small burial ground honoring Native American veterans of the Revolutionary War.

In 1777, two men were killed after being struck by lightning at the same time.

This Victorian home turned opera house may have a phantom of its own.

The first keystone arch railroad bridges constructed in America.

The notorious pirate William Kidd might have buried his treasure around this local pond.

A home built and settled by a refugee of the Salem Witch Trials.