Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

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

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

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

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

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

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

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

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

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.