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.

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

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

"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."

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

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

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

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

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