This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

"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.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.