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

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

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

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

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

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.