This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

Though a proud Texan, the 41st President of the United States started life in the suburbs of Boston.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

This cave was once thought to be a hiding place for the devil.

One was an astronomer who spent his life chasing solar eclipses, the other helped make Emily Dickinson famous.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.