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

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

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.

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.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

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

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

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

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.