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Salem, Massachusetts

Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 
Somerville, Massachusetts

Sapphire City House

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects
Somerville, Massachusetts

Emerson’s Pickle Factory Plaque

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

Old Powder House

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

'Cash for Your Warhol'

A small plaque promises cold, hard cash in exchange for work by the famous pop artist.
Cambridge, Massachusetts

O'Reilly Spite House

This is the house that spite built.
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Graves of Henry and William James

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.
Watertown, Massachusetts

Julia Ward Howe's Grave

The final resting place of a suffragist author.
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mount Auburn Cemetery

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

Naramore Grave

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.
West Brookfield, Massachusetts

Rock House Reservation

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.
Brookfield, Massachusetts

Spooner Well

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.
Worcester, Massachusetts

Site of Emma Goldman's Ice Cream Shop

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

Sky Bar

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.
Sudbury, Massachusetts

Goodnow Kayak

The Inuit kayak from Robert Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland is now on display at a local library.
Quincy, Massachusetts

USS Salem

The world's only surviving heavy cruiser has a haunting history.
Hull, Massachusetts

Paragon Carousel

The last remaining attraction from Paragon Park.
Hingham, Massachusetts

Old Ship Church

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

Ellis Estate

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."
Scituate, Massachusetts

Lawson Tower

A Medieval Water Tower in the Heart of Massachusetts.
Marshfield, Massachusetts

Rexhame Beach

In 1898, a New England storm that claimed more than 400 lives created this brand new stretch of shoreline.
Duxbury, Massachusetts

Myles Standish Burial Ground

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

"The Witches of Eastwick" Filming Sites

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.
Northfield, Massachusetts

Northfield Mountain

The largest battery in New England sits atop a Massachusetts mountain.