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

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

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

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

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

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

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

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

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

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

This 19th-century Hamptons windmill was once home to modernist painter Agnes Pelton.

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

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

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

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