Somerville, Massachusetts
Prospect Hill Tower
This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.
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Somerville, Massachusetts
This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.
Edgartown, Massachusetts
The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.
Provincetown, Massachusetts
This stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.
Dennis, Massachusetts
The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.
Milford, Massachusetts
This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.
Eastham, Massachusetts
The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.
Quincy, Massachusetts
The homestead of American patriot John Adams.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.
Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.
Montague, Massachusetts
Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."
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."
Somerville, Massachusetts
This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.
Holyoke, Massachusetts
The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.
Salem, Massachusetts
A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.
Salem, Massachusetts
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Barnet, Vermont
The place where the great marine explorer first learned to work underwater is not where you'd expect.
Underhill, Vermont
This path is named for a mythical half-boar, half-deer creature that once roamed the Green Mountains.
Dummerston, Vermont
The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.
Grafton, Vermont
Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.
Castleton, Vermont
This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.