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This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

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

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

Cape Cod’s historic beacon made famous on a potato chip bag.

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

Mural fragments and various sculptures honor the longtime artist.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

On the walking path from Monterosso to Vernazza, a small shrine dedicated to feline friends.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.

Like Mars, but much closer.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.