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A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.

A monument to the groundbreaking environmentalist sits near the place where she first experienced the sea.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

A sculpture in Hyannis commemorates Chief Sachem Iyannough of the Mattachiest tribe.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

The final resting place of the renowned, eccentric artist doesn’t even include his name.