Massachusetts

The Lizzie Borden House | Tour the Macabre

For anyone intrigued by unsolved crimes and brave enough to risk an encounter with the supernatural, the Lizzie Borden house in Fall River, Massachusetts, is an ideal destination.

Massachusetts

The Mystery of Dighton Rock

For more than three centuries, the mysterious carvings on a stone in a Massachusetts river have had something to tell us. Will we ever understand the mysteries of Dighton Rock?

Food

Toll House Cookies: The Original Chocolate Chip Cookie

Learn how New England innkeeper Ruth Wakefield invented the most popular cookie in America (Toll House Cookies) by adding Nestlé chocolate bits to her cookies—to create what today is known as a chocolate chip cookie.

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