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

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

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

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

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

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

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

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.