The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

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

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

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

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

Welcome sign announcing Haverhill, MA, as the birthplace of horror rocker/artist/director Rob Zombie.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

Where Eunice Williams was murdered by natives, and where locals say her ghost still haunts.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

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

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

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

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.