This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

New Hampshire's first neighborhood is now preserved as a historic village with live action role players.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

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

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

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

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

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

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

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

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.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

Called the “General Motors of the piano industry,” these buildings once produced as many as 700 pianos a week.