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The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

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

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

This castle constructed in 1928 was crafted from drawings of Lismore Castle in Ireland.

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

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

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

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

Explore the odd assortment of items that have washed up on the beaches of Plum Island.

This donated headstone marks the grave of a pair of elderly women who were mysteriously murdered.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

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

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

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.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.