A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

A showcase of geologic history is home to one of the largest collection of lunar meteorites on Earth.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

The last remaining Shaker community still practices a uniquely communal and utopian version of Christianity.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

This historic hotel was once home to Henry David Thoreau and rumored to be haunted by ghosts of fallen soldiers from the American Revolution.

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.

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

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

A historic pub with traditional Irish cuisine, fine drinks, and a paranormal past.

The Inuit kayak from Robert Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland is now on display at a local library.

Once an integral part of Native American life, very few of these communal New England stones have survived to the present day.

Location of the first public performance and singing of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

A historic bridge no one is allowed to cross.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.