Best of New England

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

"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.

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.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.