Places chrissyml Wants to Go

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

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

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

In the 19th century, this was the center of Boston's Black community.

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.