Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mütter Museum
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.
Newport, Rhode Island
An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.
Aquinnah, Massachusetts
Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.
Edgartown, Massachusetts
The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.
Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.
Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.
Newport, Rhode Island
Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.
Whitman, Massachusetts
This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.
Wareham, Massachusetts
The former home of the oldest nail maker in the United States was built on the ashes of a mill burned by the British.
Mattapoisett, Massachusetts
Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.
Fairhaven, Massachusetts
A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.
Fairhaven, Massachusetts
A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."
Fairhaven, Massachusetts
Some big-name visitors have patronized this small-town library named for an oil man's daughter.
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."
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.
Hingham, Massachusetts
Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.
Cohasset, Massachusetts
New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.