Places GamokaJoe Wants to Go

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

This historic Victorian mansion is allegedly so haunted that a signed waiver is required to enter.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

This donated headstone marks the grave of a pair of elderly women who were mysteriously murdered.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

This electronics repair store celebrates the history of computers.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

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

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

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

This hidden labyrinth offers walkers some brief peace of mind.

One of the few remaining monuments dedicated to South Boston's Irish heritage.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.