Places AlexaCashew Wants to Go

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

This exhibit is devoted to the games and wonder that Hasbro has brought children worldwide.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.