Places amcagg Wants to Go

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

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

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

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

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

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

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

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

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

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.

A showcase of geologic history is home to one of the largest collection of lunar meteorites on Earth.

A museum dedicated Germany's favorite drink and most well-known festival.