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

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

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

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

A monument to the groundbreaking environmentalist sits near the place where she first experienced the sea.

A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."

Some big-name visitors have patronized this small-town library named for an oil man's daughter.

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

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.