Chilmark, Massachusetts
The Brickyard
A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.
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Chilmark, Massachusetts
A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.
Edgartown, Massachusetts
The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.
Eastham, Massachusetts
The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.
Hull, Massachusetts
A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.
Watertown, Massachusetts
The final resting place of a suffragist author.
Winthrop, Massachusetts
The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.
Sharon, Massachusetts
She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.
Boston, Massachusetts
A school used as a model for public education across the country.
Orleans, Massachusetts
Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.
Boston, Massachusetts
Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.
Provincetown, Massachusetts
A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.
Amherst, Massachusetts
The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.
Concord, Massachusetts
The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.
Nantucket, Massachusetts
A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."
Chicopee, Massachusetts
The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.
Newburyport, Massachusetts
A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.
Brookline, Massachusetts
The oldest playground in America.
Marlboro, Massachusetts
America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.
Weston, Massachusetts
This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.
Winthrop, Massachusetts
A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.
Scituate, Massachusetts
A Medieval Water Tower in the Heart of Massachusetts.
Gardner, Massachusetts
This donated headstone marks the grave of a pair of elderly women who were mysteriously murdered.