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You can see, hear, feel, and sometimes even smell, the history throughout Massachusetts. Check out the very rock where the Pilgrims landed, and visit Plimoth Plantation to see what life was like in the 1600’s, before cell phones and reality TV. Walk the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston, where every step tells a story of the American Revolution. Hear the famous “shot heard round the world” on Lexington Green, where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired. Get goose bumps sitting where giants in the abolitionist movement sat in the brilliantly restored African American Meeting House. Feel the hull of Old Ironsides, otherwise known as the USS Constitution. What did the 1830’s smell like? Apparently awesome, according to the bread they’re baking and the candles they’re dipping over at Old Sturbridge Village, one of the country’s oldest and largest living history museums.

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- 1,746 saves
Freedom Trail Walk Into History Tour
Boston
- 1,367 saves
Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
Boston
- 1,184 saves
Salem Witch Museum
Salem
- 850 saves
Plimoth Plantation
Plymouth
- 776 saves
Paul Revere House
Boston
- 464 saves
Old Sturbridge Village
Sturbridge
- 410 saves
Plymouth Rock
Plymouth
- 385 saves
The House of the Seven Gables
Salem
- 353 saves
Heritage Museums & Gardens
Sandwich
- 304 saves
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cambridge
- 296 saves
Battleship Cove
Fall River
- 254 saves
Adams National Historical Park
Quincy
- 218 saves
Salem Museum
Salem
- 210 saves
Naumkeag
Stockbridge
- 181 saves
Gallows Hill Museum /Theatre
Salem
- 180 saves
Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum
Provincetown
- 171 saves
Old South Meeting House
Boston
- 156 saves
The Plimoth Grist Mill
Plymouth
- 149 saves
Old State House
Boston
- 145 saves
The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home
Lenox
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