The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

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

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

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.

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

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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

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

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.