Places bibliophile22 Wants to Go

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

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

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."