A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

The oldest playground in America.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

Mural fragments and various sculptures honor the longtime artist.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.