Places BrandyBacon Wants to Go

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher.

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

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

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

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

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

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

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.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

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

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.