Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

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

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.