New England Pirate Museum is one of 1,000 Great Places in Massachusetts!

Congratulations to the sites in Salem that were chosen for the newly released list of 1,000 Great Places in Massachusetts! More than 12,000 places were nominated.

Included in the list was the New England Pirate Museum, which had a nice write-up on Boston.com today:

Frankly, the most pirate history Mass. vacationers seem to get these days come from those miniature golf courses down on the Cape. Enter Salem's Pirate Museum though, and visitors can learn about the notorious characters that once roamed the North Shore.

- Boston.com

Here's the list of other sites in Salem that made the list:

• Charter Street Burial Ground
• Chestnut Street
• Essex Street Pedestrian Mall
• The Hawthorne Hotel
• The House of The Seven Gables
• Misery Islands in Salem Harbor
• Peabody Essex Museum
• Phillips House
• Pickering Wharf Lighthouse (Derby Light)
• Salem Maritime National Historic Site
• Salem Willows Park
• Salem Witch Museum
• The Salem Athenaeum
• Winter Island
• The Witch Dungeon Museum

The complete list of 1,000 Great Places in Massachusetts is available here (PDF).