Places hcc1944 Wants to Go

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.

A historic bridge no one is allowed to cross.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

This cave was once thought to be a hiding place for the devil.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

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

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

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

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

This hidden labyrinth offers walkers some brief peace of mind.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.