History in Massachusetts

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

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

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

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

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

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

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

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.