It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

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

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

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

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?