Places GamokaJoe Wants to Go

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

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

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

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

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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

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

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

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

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.