Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

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

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

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

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

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

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

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

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

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

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

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

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

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.