The owner of one of the oldest homes in Amherst had a unique request before the home could be turned into a museum.

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.

This art display in Dedham honors a local fish, and is dedicated to the volunteers who restored the canal.

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.

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

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

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

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

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

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

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

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

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

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

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

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

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.