Boston, Massachusetts
Boston's First Street
Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.
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Boston, Massachusetts
Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.
Salem, Massachusetts
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Boston, Massachusetts
Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
Boston, Massachusetts
The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.
Boston, Massachusetts
This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.
Newton, Massachusetts
This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Salem, New Hampshire
America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.
Haverhill, Massachusetts
A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.
Groton, Massachusetts
On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.
Hudson, New Hampshire
A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.
Pelham, New Hampshire
Expertly restored pinball machines as far as the eye can see.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.
Lowell, Massachusetts
Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.
Adams, Massachusetts
Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.
Charlemont, Massachusetts
A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.
Needham, Massachusetts
An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.