Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Narrowest house in Boston.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

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

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

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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.

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

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

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

Remnants of a forgotten 1920s speakeasy and Prohibition-era murals were discovered in its basement.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

Always a new use for this old building.

This tiny home built on revenge appears to be scarcely wider than a Volkswagen.

This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.