Places chrissyml Wants to Go

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

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

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

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

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

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

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

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

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

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

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.