Boston, Massachusetts
Boston's Old Burying Grounds
Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.
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Boston, Massachusetts
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (The Gardner)
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
Salem, Massachusetts
The Witch House of Salem
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Boston, Massachusetts
Mapparium Globe
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Hartford, Connecticut
Horace Wells Memorial
The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.
Hartford, Connecticut
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.
Hartford, Connecticut
Ancient Burying Ground
The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.
Hartford, Connecticut
The Mark Twain House & Museum
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
Hartford, Connecticut
Museum of Natural and Other Curiosities
A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.
