Places anneobrien Wants to Go

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This is the house that spite built.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

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

A Medieval Water Tower in the Heart of Massachusetts.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.