Places britmichelle Wants to Go

The bench featured in the film with Robin Williams and Matt Damon has become a popular destination for moviegoers.

This steep slide at a kids’ playground went viral after an police officer tumbled down it.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

This electronics repair store celebrates the history of computers.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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.

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

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

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

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

This monument claims to display the first pot used to cook a famed Southern stew.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

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

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

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

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.