The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

The first woman in the United States to get a driver's license is buried here.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.

The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

This American Sycamore was grown from seeds that accompanied the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

A small burial ground honoring Native American veterans of the Revolutionary War.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

This memorial is dedicated to a once popular but now defunct discount Shrewsbury department store.

The world's most comprehensive collection of Willard timepieces is a celebration of early American clockmaking.

Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

Two stone markers honor the Nipmuc people who first settled here millennia ago.

One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.

A historic bridge no one is allowed to cross.

The notorious pirate William Kidd might have buried his treasure around this local pond.

A monument to the winner of the 1946 Boston Marathon, Greek runner Stylianos Kyriakides.

A historic pub with traditional Irish cuisine, fine drinks, and a paranormal past.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.