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Part of the same natural sand tombolo, shared with Long Beach, that connects the city of Lynn to the Nahant peninsula on Massachusetts' North Shore. The reservation here was established around 1900 to protect the shoreline after the area's transformation from colonial grazing land into a 19th-century resort destination.

A 1.5-mile sand spit connecting the Nahant peninsula to the Massachusetts mainland near Little Nahant, one of the few well-preserved natural tombolos on the East Coast. Nahant grew from a colonial-era grazing area into one of the earliest resort towns in the region, with regular steamboat service from Boston beginning in 1817.

A 12-foot square brick lighthouse built in 1871 at the end of Derby Wharf in Salem, Massachusetts, one of only five square brick lighthouses in the state. Originally painted red before switching to white in 1922, it guided ships into Salem's harbor until its 1977 deactivation and is now part of Salem Maritime National Historic Site.

A small, rocky cove beach in Beverly, Massachusetts, named for Robin Mingo, an enslaved man who, according to local legend, was promised his freedom if the tide ever receded far enough for him to walk out to an offshore ledge. It remains a residents-only beach requiring a summer sticker for access.

A granite lighthouse marking the outermost ledges of Boston Harbor, named for Rear Admiral Thomas Graves, who sailed into the harbor with John Winthrop in 1628. Built between 1903 and 1905 to guide ships through the newly opened Broad Sound Channel, it was sold at federal auction to a private owner for nearly $1 million in 2013.

Installed on Boston Common for the city's 300th anniversary in 1930, this bronze relief depicts hermit William Blaxton greeting Governor John Winthrop and the Puritan settlers who in 1634 purchased the land that became America's oldest public park.