Places breaingram Wants to Go

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

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

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

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

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

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

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

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

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

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

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."