Boston, Massachusetts
Boston's First Street
Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.
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Boston, Massachusetts
Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.
Lowell, Massachusetts
According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.
Berkley, Massachusetts
A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.
Boston, Massachusetts
A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.
Hull, Massachusetts
Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.
Sheffield, Massachusetts
The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.
Newbury, Massachusetts
This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.
Clinton, Massachusetts
This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.
Medford, Massachusetts
Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.
Sutton, Massachusetts
This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.
North Adams, Massachusetts
The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.
Heath, Massachusetts
A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.
Becket, Massachusetts
Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.
Concord, Massachusetts
"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."
Groton, Massachusetts
On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.
Waltham, Massachusetts
Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.
Lee, Massachusetts
Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."
Adams, Massachusetts
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.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.
Lynn, Massachusetts
A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.