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A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

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

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

One of the largest public collection of historic armored and military vehicles in North America.

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

A Medieval Water Tower in the Heart of Massachusetts.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

This 50-foot rock formation looked like a face that was once believed to be that of a Native American chief.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

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

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.