Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

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

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

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

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

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

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

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

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