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alinekaplan

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Aline is a blogger and writer. Her social commentary blog, The Next Phase, appears multiple times a week. Every Thursday it features a post about places in and around Boston, including hidden gems and statues. As a docent for Boston by Foot, Aline leads historical and architectural tours of Boston. As a tour guide for Haunted Boston, Aline gives ghost tours of the city. Aline is the author of two published science fiction novels and multiple short stories. She is an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and a long-term member of the Spacecrafts writers group. She is a graduate of Northeastern University and lives in Hudson, MA.
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Notre Dame Basilica

Montreal, Québec

Notre Dame Basilica

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

Schwartz's

Montreal, Québec

Schwartz's

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

Purgatory Falls

Lyndeborough, New Hampshire

Purgatory Falls

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

Forest Hills Cemetery

Boston, Massachusetts

Forest Hills Cemetery

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Our Sun, looking radiant in Alaska

Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage Light Speed Planet Walk

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

Reversing Falls

Saint John, New Brunswick

Reversing Falls

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

The site of the old Post Office as it is today

Keeseville, New York

Ausable Chasm

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

Glacial Potholes

Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts

Glacial Potholes

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast/Museum

Fall River, Massachusetts

Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast and Museum

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Boston Tea Kettle

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston Tea Kettle

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Typical Boston gravestones showing the winged death head

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston's Old Burying Grounds

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Old North Church

Boston, Massachusetts

Old North Church

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Plaque

Boston, Massachusetts

Great Boston Molasses Flood Plaque

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

Gold markers pay tribute to participants of Boston Tea Party

Boston, Massachusetts

Copp's Hill Burying Ground

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

98 Prince St: The Building on the Corner of Prince & Thacher Streets, Boston (2016)

Boston, Massachusetts

98 Prince Street

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

The Mother Church

Boston, Massachusetts

The First Church of Christ, Scientist

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

Ether Monument. (Wikimedia Commons)

Boston, Massachusetts

Ether Monument

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Boston police search stable at Suffolk Downs for Brink's Robbery suspects and loot

Boston, Massachusetts

Site of the Great Brinks Robbery

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

St. Anthony's Feast is a gigantic, vibrant and delicious religious themed celebration in Boston

Boston, Massachusetts

Site of St. Anthony's Feast

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

Boston's First Street

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston's First Street

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

It's half the size of that car!

Boston, Massachusetts

Skinny House

Narrowest house in Boston.

Salada Tea Doors

Boston, Massachusetts

Salada Tea Doors

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

Bunker Hill Monument

Boston, Massachusetts

Bunker Hill Monument

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (The Gardner)

Boston, Massachusetts

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (The Gardner)

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

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