Places Fox Heiress Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

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

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

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

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

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

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

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

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

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

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

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.