Places AF Wants to Go

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

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

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

A highway marker that honors a former spy plane pilot and local hero.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

This historic furnace was once used to produce cannonballs during the Civil War.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

A solemn reminder of the infamous World War II war crime that massacred almost all the men in a small Greek town.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

The world's longest known cave system.