Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

A small, red building located along a state highway where the 18th Vice President made shoes in his youth.

Dedicated to a local cow who escaped a slaughterhouse and became an international symbol of peace.

A massive rotating globe sits at the center of Babson Park.

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

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

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

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

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.

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

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.