The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.

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

The final resting place of a man who claimed that he could tame even the mightiest of bears.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

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

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

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

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.