East Lyme, Connecticut
Book Barn
With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.
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East Lyme, Connecticut
With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.
Boston, Massachusetts
A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.
Washington, D.C.
A nostalgic bibliographic gem.
Venice, Italy
This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.
Ithaca, New York
The library of every book lover's dreams.
Watertown, Massachusetts
The final resting place of a suffragist author.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.
Concord, Massachusetts
One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.
Amherst, Massachusetts
The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.
Harvard, Massachusetts
This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.
Westford, Massachusetts
A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.
Halifax, Massachusetts
A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.
Boston, Massachusetts
An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.
Worcester, Massachusetts
The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.
Rochester, Massachusetts
Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.
Newbury, Massachusetts
This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.
Lenox, Massachusetts
The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.
Waltham, Massachusetts
A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.
Amherst, Massachusetts
Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.
Lee, Massachusetts
Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."