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Smithsonian Magazine
Fervent Fans of 'Moby-Dick' Flock to This Massachusetts City to Read the Book Cover to Cover
Once the whaling capital of the world, New Bedford remembers Herman Melville’s literary masterpiece with an annual reading marathon
Pilgrim Monument
Mentioned by Smithsonian Magazine
“The Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts, was built between 1907 and 1910 to commemorate the first landfall of the Pilgrims in 1620 and the signing of the Mayflower Compact in Provincetown Harbor. This 252-foot-7+1⁄2-inch-tall (77.0 m) campanile is the tallest all-granite structure in…”