Provincetown, Massachusetts
The Pest House Cemetery
A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.
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Provincetown, Massachusetts
A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.
Halifax, Massachusetts
A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.
Chilmark, Massachusetts
A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.
Edgartown, Massachusetts
The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.
Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.
Dennis, Massachusetts
This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.
Falmouth, Massachusetts
Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.
Greenfield, Massachusetts
Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Somerville, Massachusetts
A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.
Boston, Massachusetts
America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.
Boston, Massachusetts
This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.
Boston, Massachusetts
One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.
Sharon, Massachusetts
She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.
Sudbury, Massachusetts
This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.
Barre, Massachusetts
Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.
Brookfield, Massachusetts
Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.
Clinton, Massachusetts
One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.
Upton, Massachusetts
This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.
Sutton, Massachusetts
This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.