A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

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

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

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