Places ChittyBang Wants to Go

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

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

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

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

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

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

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

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

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

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

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