The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

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

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

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

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

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

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

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

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

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

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

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

"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."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

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

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.