Some big-name visitors have patronized this small-town library named for an oil man's daughter.

Though a proud Texan, the 41st President of the United States started life in the suburbs of Boston.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

Built in 1821 using rooms from another estate, the Phillips House is the only historic home on scenic Chestnut Street open to the public.

A small obelisk commemorates the launch site of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

The oldest playground in America.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The only remaining place where you can play this century-old game for cash.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."