An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.

Asia's largest limestone cave is home to a world of plastic goblins and gold mining history.

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

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

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

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

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

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

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

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

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

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

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.