Yarmouth Port: Captains, Curiosities & the Coast

A drive through a village built on whaling fortunes, one writer's strange imagination, and a boardwalk to the bay

Towns decide what they are going to be, usually in a handful of streets. These are the ones in Yarmouth. Five stops over 2.4 miles, about 25 minutes of driving. The story for each stop plays as you arrive, so nothing has to be looked up and nobody has to be followed.

It works as well at eight in the morning as it does at dusk. Stop for coffee, pick it back up.