Places caitmckay Wants to Go

The oldest tavern in Lowell has dedicated fans of its fan.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

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

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

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

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

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

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

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

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.

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