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

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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

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

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

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

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

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

"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."

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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