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Learn about the history and hopeful future of Maine’s nesting birds at this interactive Audubon facility.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

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

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

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

This replica of a historic fishing shack long dubbed the most painted building in America.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

Suspended from this brewery’s tasting room ceiling is a full-sized fin whale skeleton.

Since 1956, this quintessentially New England seafood shack has been boiling its lobsters in seawater over wood fires.

An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.

Forrest Gump ran past this iconic Maine lighthouse in his cinematic cross-country journey.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

This mosaic commemorates the oldest subway tunnel and station in the United States.

The bench featured in the film with Robin Williams and Matt Damon has become a popular destination for moviegoers.

The colonial home of Paul Revere during the American Revolution.

This electronics repair store celebrates the history of computers.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

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

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.