Salem - New England Pirate Museum

The Pirate Museum in Salem features an artifact room with authentic pirate treasure, a re-creation of a colonial seaport with costumed actors playing the roles of its citizens, a treasure-laden cave and a life-size pirate ship. Around the same time that judges in Salem were trying people for practicing witchcraft, pirates like Captain Kidd and Blackbeard were sacking merchant ships and towns then burying their treasures on many of the islands along what is often called the Gold Coast.