The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

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

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

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

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

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Narrowest house in Boston.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.