Places happygrim Wants to Go

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

This museum dedicated to local history is housed in the state's oldest surviving fire station.

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

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

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

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

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.