Places Doran Manella Wants to Go

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

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

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Narrowest house in Boston.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.