Places ekeeller Wants to Go

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

This popular Boston haunt is reminiscent of a time gone by, when slow cafes and sweet-smelling smoke wafting from patios was the norm.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

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

The colonial home of Paul Revere during the American Revolution.

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

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

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

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

A poignant memorial shows the widows and children left heartbroken by the worst fishing disaster in Scottish history.

A watchhouse constructed from tombstones, to make way for a burial pit, for the victims succumbing to a deadly disease.

This centuries-old mansion was the home of the noted 19th-century diarist Anne Lister (aka “Gentleman Jack”).

This picturesque view of the Scottish Borders was beloved by Sir Walter Scott.

Some of the most enduring novels in English literature were written within the walls of this Georgian-era building.