Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

In 1898, a New England storm that claimed more than 400 lives created this brand new stretch of shoreline.

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

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

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

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

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

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.

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

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

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

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

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

"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."

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.