Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

"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."

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.