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

Commemorating the 1948 creation of the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based cancer charity.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

"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."

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

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