The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

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

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

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