The oldest playground in America.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

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

This donated headstone marks the grave of a pair of elderly women who were mysteriously murdered.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

This memorial garden is the final resting place of many beloved pets including that of a famous explorer.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

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.

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

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

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.