Places eevance Wants to Go

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

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

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

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

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

Get your cosplay on at Milwaukie’s only Medieval fantasy-themed mead hall.

Definitely not a clown bar.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

This Portland Art gallery doubles as a studio that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.