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

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

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

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

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

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

"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."

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

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.