This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

The first newspaper printed by an expeditionary force was published in this colonial mansion.

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

The tennis legend used this racket while breaking the race barrier and becoming the first Black man to win the US Open.

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

The world's best collection to gauge whether or not you should wear a scarf outside.

The former home of the oldest nail maker in the United States was built on the ashes of a mill burned by the British.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

This museum dedicated to local history is housed in the state's oldest surviving fire station.

A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.