Places educatorclaire Wants to Go

This public bathroom takes the form of a 19th-century lighthouse that once stood on the spot.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

The infamous Boston Mob ran rackets from an office here in the 1970s.

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

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

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

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

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

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

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.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

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