Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket Whaling Museum
Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.
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Nantucket, Massachusetts
Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.
Greenfield, Massachusetts
Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.
Brookline, Massachusetts
This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.
Princeton, Massachusetts
This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.
Lynn, Massachusetts
At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.
Eastham, Massachusetts
The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.
Truro, Massachusetts
This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.
Concord, Massachusetts
Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.
Upton, Massachusetts
This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.
Hull, Massachusetts
Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.
Boston, Massachusetts
A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.
Waltham, Massachusetts
A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.
Dedham, Massachusetts
The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.
Somerville, Massachusetts
Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.
Hull, Massachusetts
Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.
Easton, Massachusetts
The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.
Peabody, Massachusetts
Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.
Beverly, Massachusetts
Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.
Boston, Massachusetts
On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.