The first transatlantic wireless communication between the U.S. and Europe took place here in 1903.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

Since 1956, this quintessentially New England seafood shack has been boiling its lobsters in seawater over wood fires.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The world's only surviving heavy cruiser has a haunting history.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

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

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

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

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

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

A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."

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

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

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

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