Romance is always in the air at the top of The Empire State Building. Claimed to be one of the most popular places in the world to propose, only on Valentine's Day are couples allowed to get married at the 86th floor observation tower. Lucky couples need to be winners not only in love abut also by being selected in an annual Valentine's Day wedding...

Cape Cod is a thin hooked shaped peninsula of land in the southeastern corner of Massachusetts, which in turn is one of the six New England states. It is surrounded by Cape Cod Bay, the Atlantic Ocean, Nantucket Sound, Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay respectively and, since 1914, has been separated from 'mainland' Massachusetts by the Cape Cod Cana...

Martha's Vineyard is an island seven miles off the Cape Cod peninsula in Massachusetts. Once a major whaling centre it has become, in more recent times, a favoured summer resort for those with demanding, frenetic or spotlight focused lives, including US Presidents Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama. It is easy to understand why people choose Martha's V...

Nantucket is an island measuring 14 miles long and 3½ miles wide, some 27 miles off Cape Cod's south coast in Massachusetts. Its long and illustrious history is such that the National Park Service designated the entire island to be a National Historic District in 1975. Nantucket's location offshore from the New England mainland also gives the islan...

Plymouth, Massachusetts, sits on the site of the, then named, Plimouth Colony, which was founded in 1620 by a group from England who became known as the Pilgrims. Among the first to settle in 'new world', they were in search of the chance to live a simple life of religious devotion. Plymouth also lays claim to USA's the first Thanksgiving feast, an...

Sail Boston will welcome the Rendez-Vous 2017 Tall Ships Regatta in June 2017. Royal Greenwich, UK, will be the first host of the Rendez in April 2017. Boston is the only selected American port in the Regatta which is a 7,000 nautical mile transatlantic race visiting six countries. Massachusetts is planning to use the event to encourage visitors to...