Newton, Massachusetts
Echo Bridge
A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.
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Newton, Massachusetts
A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.
Newton, Massachusetts
This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.
Concord, Massachusetts
A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.
Devens, Massachusetts
A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.
Groton, Massachusetts
On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.
Mason, New Hampshire
The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.
Gardner, Massachusetts
In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.
Harvard, Massachusetts
A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.
Harvard, Massachusetts
This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.
Cumberland, Rhode Island
Constructed in 1676, this stone memorial is believed to be the oldest veteran's memorial in the United States.
Milton, Massachusetts
The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.
Sharon, Massachusetts
She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.
Concord, Massachusetts
The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.
Concord, Massachusetts
This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.
Concord, Massachusetts
"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."
Lincoln, Massachusetts
No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.
Sudbury, Massachusetts
The Inuit kayak from Robert Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland is now on display at a local library.
Sudbury, Massachusetts
Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.
Ware, Massachusetts
The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.
Foster, Rhode Island
As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.
Glocester, Rhode Island
A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.
Natick, Massachusetts
The American author whose "rags-to-riches" stories were popular during the Gilded Age.
Natick, Massachusetts
A small burial ground honoring Native American veterans of the Revolutionary War.