Take a step inside the picturesque studio of America’s most renowned sculptor.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

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

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

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

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

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

"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."

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.