Boston, Massachusetts
Mapparium Globe
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Brookline, Massachusetts
This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.
Danvers, Massachusetts
This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.
Boston, Massachusetts
A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.
Somerville, Massachusetts
This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.
Boston, Massachusetts
Museum dedicated to awful artwork.
Sudbury, Massachusetts
This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.
Concord, Massachusetts
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.
Concord, Massachusetts
This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.
Derry, New Hampshire
Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.
Leominster, Massachusetts
The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.
Leominster, Massachusetts
This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.
Lowell, Massachusetts
A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.
Lowell, Massachusetts
According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.
Fair Haven, Vermont
Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.
Danville, Vermont
Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.
Shelburne, Vermont
A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.
Graniteville, Vermont
Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.
Stowe, Vermont
This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.
Dummerston, Vermont
The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.