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The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

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

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

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

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

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

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

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

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

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

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

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

This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.

This riverfront statue honors the inventor of the first video games ever sold.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

Its incredible collection preserves 170 years of sewing machine history.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

Now home to hardy plants, these sand and gravel dunes once held back a massive prehistoric lake.