You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

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

A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."

The last remaining attraction from Paragon Park.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

This clock tower is all that remains of Bird Hall, constructed by one of the founding families of this Massachusetts town.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

"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."

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.