Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.

Built in 1821 using rooms from another estate, the Phillips House is the only historic home on scenic Chestnut Street open to the public.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

A historic bridge no one is allowed to cross.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

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

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

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

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

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

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

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

This stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.