These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

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.

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

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

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

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

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.