Finding the exotic in your own backyard is easy when you cruise along the eastern Seaboard of North America. New England offers so many chances to step back into history, to see how life was lived by turn of the century millionaires, to experience rugged seashores, picturesque lighthouses on cliffs overlooking quite coves. Uncover history around every turn of Boston's famous Freedom Trail and along the walls of the Citadel, Halifax's 19th-century bastion fortification. Be inspired by the same powerful seascapes in Portland, Maine, that gave poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow his muse. The stories unfold along the sea.