Places bluestargirl Wants to Go

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

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

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

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.

This donated headstone marks the grave of a pair of elderly women who were mysteriously murdered.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

This plaque is dedicated to one-half of the Magliozzi brothers and their hit radio show, 'Car Talk.'

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.