Places ashmont Wants to Go

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

A long-forgotten Victorian swimming hole is still a fun spot for a dip.

An old locomotive hides deep in the forest.

Off a back road near Waterville Valley, one can find a castle turret built by an eccentric reverend over 100 years ago.

Created by a local artist, these quirky sculptures each have their own names and personalities.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

This imperial marble stele was given to Harvard by Chinese alumni in the 1930s.

A neglected and disused parking garage ramp has become home street artists to share their art.

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

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

This clock tower is all that remains of Bird Hall, constructed by one of the founding families of this Massachusetts town.

Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.