Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Narrowest house in Boston.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

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

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

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The location of the pie company that gave a classic toy its name is now a parking lot.

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.