Places Charles WV Wants to Go

These pastel-colored homes were built when the island of Macau was a Portuguese colony.

The final resting place of 19th-century sailors previously banned from being buried within Portuguese Macau.

The abandoned Bermudian home of a British naval leader is surrounded by crumbling sporting fields and the graves of convicts.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

In Bermuda, this formal naval residence has become a go-to for cliff-jumpers and hikers.

Where a rare geological phenomenon created a section of rock that resembles a checkerboard.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

A tropical paradise once home to space exploration and military installations.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

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

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

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

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

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

An inclusive, climate-resilient playground honors the life of a young Boston Marathon bombing victim.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.