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Stops, in order
Where the whole trip begins — colonial history, a ballgame at the oldest park in the majors, world-class museums, and a proper bowl of chowder.
The 'shot heard round the world' — where the Revolution began — an easy half-hour from Boston, plus Thoreau's pond.
Witch-trial history and maritime fortunes in Salem, then the rocky artists' harbors of Cape Ann.
America's hometown — the Rock, the Mayflower, and a living-history village.
Seventy miles of dune, beach, and shingled village — Kennedy history, whale-rich waters, and Provincetown at the tip.
Two very different islands — Nantucket's whaling-era cobblestones and the Vineyard's gingerbread cottages and clay cliffs.
New Hampshire's tiny, handsome seaport — colonial houses, a walkable brick downtown, and a lively food scene.
A postcard Maine coastal village — Dock Square shops, a rocky point, and the Bush family compound.
New England's best small food city — a working waterfront, cobblestone Old Port, lighthouses, and lobster every which way.
Maine's small capital on the Kennebec — the State House, the governor's mansion, and the oldest surviving wooden fort in the country.
'Where the mountains meet the sea' — a schooner harbor under Mount Battie, plus Rockland's Wyeth art and a classic lighthouse.
Where the mountains meet the Atlantic — granite peaks, Rockefeller's carriage roads, and the first sunrise in the country come fall.
New Hampshire's alpine heart — the Northeast's tallest peak, a byway made for leaf season, and glacier-carved notches.
New Hampshire's compact capital — a working State House with legislators still in the original chambers, and a space-history museum.
The smallest state capital in America, plus ice cream from the source and a steepled ski village under Mount Mansfield.
Vermont's lakefront college town — a pedestrian marketplace, Lake Champlain sunsets, and one of the country's best folk-art museums.
The quintessential New England village — a covered bridge, a working 1890s farm, and a gorge nearby.
Western Massachusetts' cultured hills — Norman Rockwell's studio, a giant contemporary-art mill, and the summer home of the Boston Symphony.
Connecticut's capital — Mark Twain's whimsical mansion, the oldest public art museum in America, and a gold-domed statehouse.
Yale's Gothic campus, superb (free) museums, and the coal-fired apizza that starts fights among locals.
A wooden-shipbuilding seaport frozen in the 1800s, a top aquarium, and the pizzeria that named a movie.
Rhode Island's capital — a great art museum, an Ivy on a hill of colonial houses, Federal Hill's Little Italy, and rivers set on fire.
The Gilded Age's summer capital — Vanderbilt 'cottages' on the cliffs, a legendary shore walk, and America's yachting history. New England's final stop before New York.