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A sculpture in Hyannis commemorates Chief Sachem Iyannough of the Mattachiest tribe.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

The colonial home of Paul Revere during the American Revolution.

A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts displays what it calls the world's largest ship model.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

Surprising rock art on the Adirondack Scenic Byway.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Narrowest house in Boston.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

Historic home of a Black veteran of the American Revolution and one of the earliest civil rights activists in the United States.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.

On the outskirts of Pennsylvania’s capital city, a reminder of the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.

Off a back road near Waterville Valley, one can find a castle turret built by an eccentric reverend over 100 years ago.

An old locomotive hides deep in the forest.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

A building made mostly of cast iron features a 1:45 scale lego model of its self.