The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

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

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

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

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.