This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

The owner of one of the oldest homes in Amherst had a unique request before the home could be turned into a museum.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

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

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

The gravestone of the man who designed the plastic pink flamingo is adorned with his most famous creation.

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

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

This castle constructed in 1928 was crafted from drawings of Lismore Castle in Ireland.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

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

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

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

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.