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

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

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.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history, this memorial has faced its fair share of backlash.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

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

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

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

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

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

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

The oldest playground in America.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.