The official peace statue of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

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

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

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.

A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.

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

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

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

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

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

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

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