A Medieval Water Tower in the Heart of Massachusetts.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

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

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

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

This museum shines a light on the true Pilgrim experience in North America.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

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

Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

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

A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

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

A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.