Places wayneknevett Wants to Go

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

This plaque is dedicated to a historic hotel’s Canine Ambassador and the subject of two children’s books.

A pair of antique trolleys are on display at one of the oldest subway stations in the United States.

This mosaic commemorates the oldest subway tunnel and station in the United States.

A centuries-old church stands as a testament to Boston's "father of architecture."

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

On May 2, 1845, crowds gathered to watch a clown and four geese sail upstream in a bathtub. Then disaster struck.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.