Places Bones Wants to Go

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

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

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

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.

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.