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The real reason to head out isn't a county line — it's a story. Follow the Revolution from Lexington to Bunker Hill, map the Salem witch trials on the ground, chase lighthouses down the Cape, or walk the mill towns that powered a nation. Pick a thread and pull.
1,409 sites
Revolutionary War Sites
Where the American Revolution began — the Freedom Trail through Boston and Charlestown, Bunker H…
416 sites
Salem Witch Trial Sites
The witch-trial year of 1692 mapped on the ground — Salem Town, old Salem Village (today's Danve…
808 sites
Pilgrims & Plymouth
The landing place of the Mayflower and the story of Plymouth Colony — Plymouth Rock, the Forefat…
4,976 sites
Whaling & Maritime Coast
Massachusetts made its fortune at sea. The whaling capitals of New Bedford and Nantucket, the fi…
142 sites
Massachusetts Lighthouses
The beacons that guarded a treacherous coast — from Boston Light, the nation's oldest light stat…
1,464 sites
Literary Landmarks
The desks and doorsteps of American letters — Concord's Emerson, Thoreau and Alcott, Walden Pond…
4,454 sites
Mill & Industrial Heritage
The engine of the American Industrial Revolution — the textile mills and canals of Lowell and La…
1,547 sites
Colonial Burial Grounds
New England's oldest graveyards — the slate death's-heads and winged skulls of the 17th- and 18t…
601 sites
Haunted Massachusetts
New England after dark — the colonial burying grounds, old taverns and inns where the stories li…
1,279 sites
College & University Campuses
The campuses that made Massachusetts a capital of learning — Harvard and MIT in Cambridge, the F…
178 sites
Abolition & Black Heritage
Massachusetts and the long fight for freedom — Frederick Douglass's New Bedford, the abolitionis…
340 sites
Gilded Age Berkshires
The summer 'cottages' of the Gilded Age — the grand estates, gardens and cultural landmarks of t…
6 sites
Covered Bridges
The last of Massachusetts's wooden covered bridges — the surviving 19th-century spans and the si…
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