Places aronsd Wants to Go

A mythological Celtic beast built with thousands of colorful tiles stands guard over a historic canal junction.

A ceramic postbox where visitors can post original poems and creative messages.

The largest terracotta fountain in the world, built to commemorate Britain’s Victorian achievements.

These ruins have been linked to a sherbet factory that exploded, but the story may be entirely fictional.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

In 1787, a group of delegates met at this very spot to drink, be merry, and ratify the Constitution of the United States.

The meeting of the northwestern corner of Delaware, the northeastern corner of Maryland, and the southern edge of Pennsylvania.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

This stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.