Boston, Massachusetts
The First Church of Christ, Scientist
This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.
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Boston, Massachusetts
This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.
Petersham, Massachusetts
This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.
Boston, Massachusetts
This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.
Boston, Massachusetts
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
Boston, Massachusetts
The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Newton, Massachusetts
This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.
Worcester, Massachusetts
The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
This general store near Boston was once owned by Henry Ford, who had it relocated to a different town using a team of oxen.
Concord, Massachusetts
"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."
West Boylston, Massachusetts
The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.
Concord, Massachusetts
Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.
Concord, Massachusetts
One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.
Concord, Massachusetts
This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.
Derry, New Hampshire
Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.
Harvard, Massachusetts
This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.
Harvard, Massachusetts
A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.
Devens, Massachusetts
A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.
Groton, Massachusetts
On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.
Leominster, Massachusetts
The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.