Places clpartin Wants to Go

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

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

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

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

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

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

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.