A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

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

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This cabin survived a landslide that killed its owners.

The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

This tiny chapel withstood a massive mudslide and flash flood.

America's first public lending library began with a gift from Benjamin Franklin.

Built in 1821 using rooms from another estate, the Phillips House is the only historic home on scenic Chestnut Street open to the public.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

The former home of the oldest nail maker in the United States was built on the ashes of a mill burned by the British.

The last remaining attraction from Paragon Park.

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

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

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

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

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

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.