Concord, Massachusetts
Old North Bridge
The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Concord, Massachusetts
The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.
Leominster, Massachusetts
The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.
Boston, Massachusetts
The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.
Quincy, Massachusetts
This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.
Griswold, Connecticut
The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.
Union, Connecticut
This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A tiny monument to the classic American candy.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.
Halifax, Massachusetts
A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.
Bridgewater, Massachusetts
This large granite seal outside a Massachusetts funeral home comes with a surprising dedication.
Whitman, Massachusetts
This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.
Lincoln, Massachusetts
No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.
Boston, Massachusetts
Museum dedicated to awful artwork.
Boston, Massachusetts
Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.
Boston, Massachusetts
A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.
Boston, Massachusetts
The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.
Boston, Massachusetts
A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.
Boston, Massachusetts
This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.