"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."

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

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

One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.

Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

The biggest apple in all of New England stands 10 feet tall and weighs over 1,000 pounds.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.