Boston, Massachusetts
Tiananmen Memorial
A memorial to Chinese freedom in the city where American freedom was born.
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Boston, Massachusetts
A memorial to Chinese freedom in the city where American freedom was born.
Sudbury, Massachusetts
The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.
Medford, Massachusetts
The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.
Northampton, Massachusetts
A single room pays homage to the prodigious achievements of the 30th President of the United States.
Leominster, Massachusetts
Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
This museum dedicated to local history is housed in the state's oldest surviving fire station.
Clinton, Massachusetts
One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.
Ashland, Massachusetts
This cave was once thought to be a hiding place for the devil.
Hull, Massachusetts
A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.
Amherst, Massachusetts
The owner of one of the oldest homes in Amherst had a unique request before the home could be turned into a museum.
Hingham, Massachusetts
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.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.
Quincy, Massachusetts
Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.
Sudbury, Massachusetts
In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.
Newton, Massachusetts
These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.
West Tisbury, Massachusetts
A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.
Watertown, Massachusetts
The final resting place of a suffragist author.
Orange, Massachusetts
A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.
Berlin, Massachusetts
The gravestone of the man who designed the plastic pink flamingo is adorned with his most famous creation.
Boston, Massachusetts
These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.