Places brucewatson71 Wants to Go

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

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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

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

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

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

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

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

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This historic Boston building has gone from personal estate to porn theater and back again.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.