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Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

Narrowest house in Boston.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.