Places Charles WV Wants to Go

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

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

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

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

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

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

This mill played a key role in the region’s development and it is just one of ten along the east coast of the United States.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.