This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

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

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

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

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

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

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

Where Eunice Williams was murdered by natives, and where locals say her ghost still haunts.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

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

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.