Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Mural fragments and various sculptures honor the longtime artist.

Dedicated in 1895, this is the world's first tribute to the hardworking newspaper delivery boy.

Wander the sprawling living museum on the site of one of a 16th-century community.

Created by a local artist, these quirky sculptures each have their own names and personalities.

Take a step inside the picturesque studio of America’s most renowned sculptor.

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

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

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

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

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.