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

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

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

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

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

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

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

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

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

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

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

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.