Places chrissyml Wants to Go

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

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

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

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

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

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

This is the house that spite built.

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

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