Northeast
By Travelog Editorial Team ยท Updated August 8, 2026
The Northeast is one of the US Census Bureau's four official regions, made up of nine states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. On Travelog it's anchored by New York's Statue of Liberty, UNESCO-listed in 1984, and Philadelphia's Independence Hall, UNESCO-listed in 1979, the region's two strongest World Heritage anchors.
New York and Pennsylvania anchor this region with genuine UNESCO listings; Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and New Jersey are grounded in actual National Historic Landmarks and National Park Service designations instead. All nine Northeast states are now live.
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- New York New York City's Statue of Liberty, UNESCO-listed in 1984, and Ellis Island, both on the same NPS-authorized ferry ticket.
- Pennsylvania Philadelphia's Independence Hall, UNESCO-listed in 1979, and the free, ticketless Liberty Bell next door.
- Massachusetts Boston's Freedom Trail: free, NPS-managed Faneuil Hall and privately operated, ticketed Old North Church.
- Connecticut Mystic Seaport Museum, home to the Charles W. Morgan, a National Historic Landmark and the world's oldest surviving merchant vessel.
- Maine Acadia National Park, home to Cadillac Mountain, genuinely the first US sunrise spot, but only for about five months a year.
- New Hampshire Strawbery Banke, a Portsmouth outdoor history museum founded in 1630, on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975.
- Rhode Island The Breakers, the Vanderbilt family's 1895 Newport mansion, a National Historic Landmark since 1994.
- Vermont Shelburne Farms, an 1886 estate with a landscape designed in part by Frederick Law Olmsted, a National Historic Landmark District since 2001.
- New Jersey Thomas Edison National Historical Park, the West Orange lab where over half of Edison's 1,093 patents were developed.
