Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

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

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

"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."

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

The monument is inscribed, "To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians Whose Bones Lie Here”.

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

A gift to the children of Boston, this bronze bear represents playfulness, a spirit of love, and the warmth of big hugs.

This bronze sculpture was inspired by a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife embracing after he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."