Places sweetm917 Wants to Go

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

This museum dedicated to local history is housed in the state's oldest surviving fire station.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

The oldest tavern in Lowell has dedicated fans of its fan.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.