These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

The owner of one of the oldest homes in Amherst had a unique request before the home could be turned into a museum.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This castle constructed in 1928 was crafted from drawings of Lismore Castle in Ireland.

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

This art display in Dedham honors a local fish, and is dedicated to the volunteers who restored the canal.

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

This plaque is dedicated to one-half of the Magliozzi brothers and their hit radio show, 'Car Talk.'

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.