A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

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.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

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

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

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

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

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

In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.

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

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

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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