Places annahes Wants to Go

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

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

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

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

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

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.