Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

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

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

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.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

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

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.